5.1
Introduction: the challenges for corporate governance .................................. 179
5.2
Ratification and implementation of standards and codes .............................. 183
5.3
Assessment of APR objectives ...................................................................... 188
CHAPTER SIX .......................................................................................................... 241
6.
SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ........................................................ 241
6.1
Introduction: the challenges for socioeconomic development ....................... 241
6.2
Ratification and implementation of standards and codes .............................. 242
6.3
Assessment of APR objectives ...................................................................... 245
CHAPTER SEVEN ................................................................................................... 286
7.
CROSSCUTTING ISSUES ........................................................................... 286
7.1
Corruption ...................................................................................................... 286
7.2
Decentralisation and the role of traditional authorities .................................. 287
7.3
Gender mainstreaming and equality .............................................................. 289
7.4
Youth training, development and integration ................................................ 291
7.5
Poverty and access to resources ..................................................................... 292
7.6
The issue of the informal sector ..................................................................... 295
7.7
Reforms and modernisation of the state ......................................................... 297
7.8
Citizenship and lack of legal security under the rule of law .......................... 301
CHAPTER EIGHT .................................................................................................... 305
8.
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS: CONSTRAINTS AND PROSPECTS .......... 305
8.1
Introduction .................................................................................................... 305
8.2
The constraints ............................................................................................... 305
8.3
Prospects ........................................................................................................ 309
APPENDIX I: PROGRAMME OF ACTION OF BENIN ........................................ 310
APPENDIX II: BENINESE GOVERNMENT COMMENTS .................................. 386
TABLES
3.1
UN .................................................................................................................... 60
3.2
ILO ................................................................................................................... 62
3.3
UNESCO .......................................................................................................... 63
3.4
International human rights ............................................................................... 63
3.5
AU .................................................................................................................... 64
3.6
AU treaties/conventions not yet ratified by Benin ........................................... 65
4.1
Situation of standards and codes for economic governance and
management in Benin .................................................................................... 135
4.2
Trends in the main aggregates by scenario .................................................... 143
4.3
Macroeconomic indicators ............................................................................. 144
5.1
The main categories of enterprises and their roles in the economy ............... 193
5.2
Private sector financing trends from 2001 to 2004 ........................................ 205
5.3
Situation of staff of the labour administration ............................................... 223
5.4
Shareholders’ rights in a company ................................................................. 231
6.1
Progress made in achieving the MDGs in Benin ........................................... 251
6.2
Gross enrolment rate ...................................................................................... 257
6.3
Trends in student/teacher ratios, 1992-2005 .................................................. 258
6.4
Trend in the proportion of girls in public institutions of higher education .... 260
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