Socio-Economic Barriers to Sustainable Development in Burkina Faso Navarro Pabsdorf, Rosa Margarita Cuenca García, Eduardo The Western Sahel has garnered global attention due to its complex and interconnected challenges, economic fragility, political instability, and environmental pressures, making it a critical research area. Focusing on Burkina Faso, this study analyses sociopolitical barriers (e.g., governance deficits, inequality) and economic growth through a two-stage framework. First, a multivariate regression (2010–2022) was used to assess macroeconomic partial effects, followed by a principal component analysis to address collinearity and uncover latent structural patterns. Our findings reveal that sustainable growth requires the strengthening of democratic institutions, economic diversification, enhanced security, and inclusive development strategies, highlighting the need for multidimensional approaches to address systemic interdependencies in post-conflict economies. 2025-09-02T10:06:35Z 2025-09-02T10:06:35Z 2025-09-01 journal article Navarro Pabsdorf, Rosa Margarita y Cuenca García, Eduardo. Socio-Economic Barriers to Sustainable Development in Burkina Faso. Sustainable Development, 2025; 0:1–12 https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.70205 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/105996 10.1002/sd.70205 eng open access Wiley