In order to investigate about the National Public Policy interaction for Poverty Reduction - Local Economic Development, LED, in the municipality of Santa Rosa de Cabal (Risaralda), there has been evaluated the score from 1994 to 2014, being the main feature the considerable reduction in poverty between 2002 and 2014 in Latin America (from 43.9 to 28%), Colombia (from 49.7 to 28.5%) and Risaralda (from 37.6 to 23.7%); on par with the favorable performance of the national Gini index (from 0.572 to 0.538) and departmental (from .514 to .498); mainly, due to the increase of national and international social spending on Conditional Cash Transfer Programs - CCTP, having as guiding framework the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). This is a NonExperimental research, developed with a descriptive and interpretative study, done under mixed approach. In addition to the literature and documentary review, two specific instruments were used: Specialized Analytical Records - SAR, to filter the information contained in the inspected plans of national and territorial development, and a semistructured interview made to important actors for local development, to determine, among others, the favorability of the same in the municipality. Three variables were analyzed: i) Poverty, being the one that has reached more conceptual development and its measurement methods (monetary, non-monetary and multidimensional), as well; ii) The national public policy for poverty reduction, which is now a construction, an amalgam composed by laws and regulations, different categories located within development plans and other formats such as programs, CONPES documents and prospective studies, etc. Its most important current materialization constitute the PTC, being Mas Familias en Accion program (more than 2.6 million households) and Strategic Sustainability UNIDOS, the ones at top of the national list by number of beneficiaries; while in Risaralda and Santa Rosa is Mas Familias en Accion program (More than 40.800 and 4.000 families, respectively); and iii) The local economic development, measured for the Municipality on an application of eight pillars that was used, which allowed to demonstrate some progress in this area for the town, but never conscious implementation of LED, notwithstanding the great potential that, in general, are detected for some kind of development based on the own strengths and capacities. Finally, progress was made in the creation and measurement of basic indexes, way to weigh the political impact – DEL.