EXECUTIVE SUMMARY _____________________________________________________________________ h. The choice of partnerships with the private sector for investment of the enterprise in flourishing niches. i. Promotion of capital transfer by Burkinabe living abroad as a lever in distributive economic growth. j. The integration of the informal sector into the economy as a partner in the progress towards an economically emerging society. k. The capacity of the country to ensure and maintain a growth that is not only high but also sustainable, inclusive, participative and distributive. l. The control of the ‘Sahelean nature’ through an appropriate environmental policy for transforming the Burkinabe Sahel into a fertile land. m. The control of the cultural constraints that can stop or impede socioeconomic development. Socioeconomic development efforts and progress include: 36 n. The inequitable spatial distribution of the population, which makes Burkina a country with a highly dominant rural population. o. The transformation of the youth, who constitute the majority of the Burkinabe population, into an asset in the dynamism of structural transformations.