Abstract EN:

Local public spending now plays an essential role in France. Alongside the state, this tole demands that local authorities define : what from local public spending should take within the national whole. Ten tears of decentralization have propagated regional economic intervention to promote local development. They have shown that regional authorities do uses the powers that their economic prerogatives confer on them, and the effectivness of their actions can be assessed at three level : - in economically powerfull regions, regional economic intervention does nothing to stimulate economic activities. - it's in the middle of the economic range that substancial economics interventions in economically weak regions, regional economic interventions does not by itself suffice to generator direct regional or local activity. We conclude that local elected officials need to draw up, a priori, strategic program to promote local development ? Program which should be based on the individual caracteristics of the region or locality.