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The article concentrates on differentiating the matter in which the politics of regional development vary from managing regional development as well as managing regional development varies from programming regional development. The presented article discusses the current matter of managing regional development. The questions raised are resulted by the fact that in April of 2009, the Council of Ministers, passed a document entitled, A System of Managing the Development of Poland, which simultaneously determines the design frame of currently projected State Strategy of Regional Development in Years 2010–2020: Regions, Cities, Rural Territory. In this documents there is a lack in cohesion of terminology in the range of the listed documents.