France has pledged to invest 12 billion euros in such urban renewal projects between 2014 and 2030 while many priority areas also benefit from other forms of government aid and subsidies.
Researchers point out that total state support to poor areas nonetheless amounts to less than 1% of annual national output.
Macron said this week that France would push ahead with urban renewal plans and look at ways to get faster results.
Thomas Kirszbaum, a sociologist at Lille University who specialises in urban policy and integration, acknowledged that urban renewal efforts often lead to local improvements but did little to address a wider sense of discrimination.
Instead, government officials argue that successive urban renewal plans have produced educational and other gains which allay a wider sense of social exclusion.
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