Four Principles for Fostering Community Well-Being with Asset-Based Development
Insights and recommendations to foster rural & Indigenous well-being with asset based development.
Rural Knowledge Center
Rural Resources, Insights, and Collaborations by Aspen CSG and Partners
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Creating Rural Opportunity: CGPA Policy Report
This final report from the CGPA addresses challenges in rural development, offering strategies to improve rural communities' quality of life.
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Globalization and The North American Free Trade Agreement
Index of 1993 Conference "Globalization and the North American Free Trade Agreement:Impact on Rural Communities" Participants and Schedule.
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Global Competitors: Local Incentives in Latin America
Paper presents a preliminary report on a project at the University of Texas which was then developing a comprehensive database on regional location incentives and relative regional competiveness.
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Every Step Seems Down: The Chaos of Labor Market Entry and Promotion
Argument examines the labor market from the perspective of working families and argues need to change dramatically how labor market think about "good jobs."
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Treading Water: The Stagnation Of Family Income Since 1973
Report shows wage stagnation among working-class families from 1973-1993.
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An Ethnoinquiry on Poverty: People’s Commentaries in a Reservation World
Ethnographic study of poverty on Oglala Lakota reservation.
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Globalization and The North American Free Trade Agreement: Impact on Rural Communities 1993 Conference Program
This document is an index for “GLOBALIZATION AND THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT: Impact on Rural Communities,” a conference...
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From The Bottom Up: Toward a Strategy for Income and Employment Generation Among the Disadvantaged
This Aspen Institute report, "FROM THE BOTTOM UP: Toward a Strategy for Income and Employment Generation Among the Disadvantaged," by Fred O'Regan and Maureen Conway (March 1993), details an interim study on local programs aimed at poverty alleviation and employment generation in the United States.
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Training Reform In the United States: What’s Happening, What’s Not, What Should
This paper, titled "TRAINING REFORM IN THE UNITED STATES: WHAT'S HAPPENING, WHAT'S NOT, WHAT SHOULD," by Joel Rogers (June 1993), provides an introduction to the topic of training reform in the U.S. It addresses the reasons for the focus on training, the necessary reforms for U.S. training institutions, and the barriers to achieving those reforms.
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Globalization and the North American Free Trade Agreement: Implications for Employment and Training Policy
This paper examines the impact of globalization and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on employment and training policy in the United States, with a specific focus on rural communities. The author, Cynthia Mugerauer, argues that while there are existing employment and training programs, they often fail to address the unique needs of rural workers and lack a unified rural strategy.
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The Transition to Empowered Problem-Solving Teams at Motorola
This document, “The Transition to Empowered Problem-solving Teams at Motorola” by James D. Burge, describes Motorola’s shift towards empowering its...
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Creating Rural Opportunity: CGPA’s State Policy Academy on Rural Competiveness, Final Report
This is the final report for the "Rural Economic and Community Development State Policy Academy" project, submitted by the Council of Governors' Policy Advisors (CGPA) on November 4, 1993. The project, jointly funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Aspen Institute, aimed to translate rural research into actionable policy for state governments, build state capacity for comprehensive rural development strategies, and support states in setting policy goals and implementing programs.