IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/presci/v55y1984i1p13-24.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

National And Regional Planning In A Competitive International Environment: Comments On A Reform

Author

Listed:
  • Pierre Mifsud

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.

Suggested Citation

  • Pierre Mifsud, 1984. "National And Regional Planning In A Competitive International Environment: Comments On A Reform," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 55(1), pages 13-24, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:presci:v:55:y:1984:i:1:p:13-24
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5597.1984.tb00824.x
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1435-5597.1984.tb00824.x
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/j.1435-5597.1984.tb00824.x?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:presci:v:55:y:1984:i:1:p:13-24. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1056-8190 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.