CHAPTER FIVE .................................................................................................. 225
5.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ............................................................... 225
5.1
Introduction: Stakes, challenges and risks of corporate governance ........... 225
5.2
Ratification and implementation of standards and codes ............................ 228
5.3
Assessment of APR objectives .................................................................. 237
CHAPTER SIX .................................................................................................... 287
6.
SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT .................................................... 287
6.1
Introduction: Challenges to the governance of socioeconomic
development ............................................................................................. 287
6.2
Ratification and implementation of standards and codes ............................ 288
6.3
Assessment of APR objectives .................................................................. 290
CHAPTER SEVEN .............................................................................................. 359
7.
CROSSCUTTING ISSUES ...................................................................... 359
7.1
Decentralisation ........................................................................................ 359
7.2
The informal sector ................................................................................... 362
7.3
Modernisation of the state ......................................................................... 366
7.4
Corruption ................................................................................................ 369
7.5
Land use planning ..................................................................................... 372
7.6
The training, upgrading and involvement of the youth ............................... 376
7.7
The issue of gender and gender equality in Burkina Faso .......................... 378
7.8
The diaspora: sustainable development factor ........................................... 380
7.9
Legal insecurity in the rule of law ............................................................. 381
7.10 The issue of e-governance ......................................................................... 383
CHAPTER EIGHT ............................................................................................... 385
8.
GENERAL CONCLUSION: CONSTRAINTS, RISKS AND
PROSPECTS ............................................................................................ 385
8.1
Constraints ................................................................................................ 385
8.2
Risks ......................................................................................................... 390
8.3
Prospects .................................................................................................. 390
ANNEXURE I: NATIONAL PROGRAMME OF ACTION ................................ 393
ANNEXURE II: COMMENTS AND CORRIGENDA OF THE BURKINABE
GOVERNMENT .................................................................................................. 481
ANNEXURE III: REPORT ON THE PEER REVIEW OF BURKINA FASO ...... 499
TABLES
2.1
Chronology of political events from 1958 to 2008 ....................................... 63
3.1
UN ............................................................................................................. 72
3.2
ILO ............................................................................................................. 78
3.3
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) ................................................................................................. 80
3.4
International humanitarian law .................................................................... 80
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