CHAPTER FOUR: ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT __________________________________________________________________________ expected that building this vision will not be reduced to the GPRS, because the stakes go well beyond that. 411. 412. Furthermore, the CRM expressed satisfaction with the ongoing clean-up efforts, and particularly in:  The macroeconomic framework for creating favourable conditions for other economic policies, investments and the general socioeconomic development framework. However, the CRM hopes that the quest for macroeconomic balances – recommended mainly by development partners – will not create obstacles to economic and social progress because, as shown by the experience of PRSP I, the results were not really positive.  The definition of sectoral strategies and, in some cases, of their operational programmes of action with indications of priorities. It is, therefore, necessary to consider economic strategies and policies that go beyond poverty reduction.  The allocation of budgetary resources since 2006. This shows that the government intends to improve budgetary allocations in line with its new priorities. The CRM felt that having a vision and projecting it into the future is an excellent way of giving a plan of action to the government and all the national stakeholders. The CRM congratulated the government for this initiative. However, the Alafia Bénin 2025 projection requires a number of economic policies on which the CSAR was silent. These include (especially):  The (re)definition of the nature and model of economic growth 30, which should be clarified from the onset so as to identify the bases and growthoriented sectors for the period and what they will focus on.  Given the importance of the sustainability of the growth model, the issue of inclusiveness (of the rural poor, in particular) and the diversification of its productive base. These factors are included in the strategic development orientations of Benin and in its GPRS. However, these factors require further exploration, particularly with regard to their structuring.  The reconfiguration of the national space, its transport networks, its economic geography (agricultural, industrial and commercial) and its demographic geography. This reconfiguration should, on the one hand, ensure that they are consistent with each other and, on the other, adapt them to the Benin of today – with its current economic, social and demographic bottlenecks – as well as to the envisaged ‘emerging Benin’. It should take into account, among others, the position that the country wants to occupy, as well as the role it wants to play in agriculture, industry and trade in the subregion of tomorrow. 30 Reference is made here to the pro-poor growth model – as in the case of China as opposed to the Indian model – which is based on state-of-the-art technology and which remains sterile in the face of the increase in poverty. 151