Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2021, 9, 347-374 https://www.scirp.org/journal/jss ISSN Online: 2327-5960 ISSN Print: 2327-5952 DOI: 10.4236/jss.2021.95018 May 18, 2021 347 Open Journal of Social Sciences The Impact of COVID-19 on Private Enterprises and Informal Economy Unities in Togo Banyokme F. Badjassilona 1 , Kossi Ayenagbo 1* , Seydi A. Dieng 2 1 Departement d’Economie, FaSEG, Universite de Kara, Kara, Togo 2 Université Cheikh Anta, Diop, Dakar, Sénégal Abstract COVID-19, far from being a health crisis, has turned into an economic and social crisis, leading to the closure of businesses around the world. Togolese businesses, both formal and informal, have suffered in one way or another. The objective of this study is to highlight the impact of this pandemic on pri- vate enterprises and informal economy unities in Togo. The database of the General Office of Work in Togo (DGT, 2020) was subjected to a descriptive statistical analysis. After documentary research, we have used the SPSS soft- ware to analyse the variables taking into account. Word and Excel software were also used to format the tables and generate some figures. The results re- vealed that, about 96.80% of the unities were impacted by the crisis and 1105 jobs were lost in some unities. The results showed also that the occurrence of collective and individual conflicts in some unities is about 3.91% due to the health crisis. Keywords COVID-19, Private Enterprises, Informal Economy Unities, Labour Relations, Togo 1. Introduction Most of the African Economy is Informal (ILO, 2020a). The private enterprises are the entities that operate under the ownership and management of individuals that freely decided to develop a given business idea. Its freedom from govern- ment intervention is what makes it different from a government institution. The informal sector or the informal economy unities can be defined as all production unities (PIUs) without an administrative registration number and/or formal written accounts. In Africa, private entreprises and informal sector contribute to How to cite this paper: Badjassilona, B. F., Ayenagbo, K., & Dieng, S. A. (2021). The Impact of COVID-19 on Private Enterpris- es and Informal Economy Unities in Togo. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 9, 347-374. https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2021.95018 Received: April 10, 2021 Accepted: May 15, 2021 Published: May 18, 2021 Copyright © 2021 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access