NATIONAL AND REGIONAL PLANNING IN A COMPETITIVE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT: COMMENTS ON A REFORM

Pierre Mifsud

Papers in Regional Science, 1984, vol. 55, issue 1, 13-24

Abstract: ABSTRACT The new French planning reform raises some problems: Might there not be a contradiction between the “voluntarism” of a planned action and the constraints of worldwide competition? Is regional planning the manifestation of regional autonomy or a decentralized process of national planning, the main objectives of which impinge upon regional plans? The present argument is that for an open economy, planning is not only possible but also necessary. It complies with the choice between structural regulation left solely to market forces or orientated by a national project. The regional plans, which complement decentralization policy, mark the transition from a notion of passive space to a notion of active space as a means of increasing the efficiency of the national economy. As a result, regional and sub‐regional economic competences remains relatively strictly controlled by the national plan. The new French planning system seeks to avoid the pitfalls of an illusory autonomy and the inefficiency of excessive centralization in order to respond to the challenges of our time in the best possible way.

Date: 1984
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