Report
The Rural Disadvantage: Growing Income Disparities Between Rural and Urban Areas
This paper demonstrates a widening income gap between rural residents and urban residents.
Rural Policy Issues: Papers Presented at a Seminar at Douneside, Aberdeenshire
Paper provides case study analyses of rural policy issues in both Western Europe and North America
Working Below The Poverty Line: The Growing Problem of Low Earnings in Rural and Urban Areas and the Regions across the United States
This report examines how the earnings of American workers changed from 1970-1990
Creating Opportunity for Rural People and Places: A State Rural Economic Development Policy Academy
Report is a policy proposal for the CSPA Policy Academy, designed to deliver intensive assistance to states in rural policy development.
What Next for Sustainable Agriculture
Paper considers issues that sustainable agriculture is expected to face as it moves on from an abstract concept to a more transformative tool of agricultural system.
Foreign Investment, Industrial Linkages, and Regional Development.
Study focuses on the regional and rural implications of foreign direct investment in the United States (FDIUS).
Recommendation for Delegated-Authority Grant
Document provides background and summary of a grant that would underwrite planning process for a major initiative to link rural advocacy and policy research organizations active U.S. rural poverty and development through HandsNet, a telecommunications company.
The Rural Poor: What We Know and What We Need to Know
Report examines gaps in adequate policy-oriented research on the rural poor and what can be done to resolve it.
Laboring For Less: Working but Poor in Rural America
A profile of the working poor outside metropolitan areas, and an exploration of the factors that lie behind the increase over the past decade in the ranks of the working poor in nonmetro areas.
Rural America in The Information Age: Telecommunications Policy for Rural Development
Paper underscores the potential role that the Telecommunications Industry can play in rural economic development through broad reaching enhancement of industries in various rural regions.
Rural Poverty Telecommunications Initiative Project Summary
Documents provides summary of the Aspen Institute's Rural Economic Policy Program's Rural Poverty Telecommunications Initiative.
Behind the Glitter: The Impact of Tourism on Rural Women in the Southeast
Paper seeks to shed light on tourism industry jobs, much of which are overwhelmingly female (food servers, maids, and retail clerks).