Report
What Next for Sutainable Agriculture
This report, "What Next for Sustainable Agriculture" by William Lockeretz, prepared for The Ford Foundation and the Rural Economic Policy Program of The Aspen Institute in December 1989, argues that while sustainable agriculture has gained recognition, the "real work" of developing realistic systems and long-range strategies is just beginning.
Measuring the Cost and Accomplishments of Capital Subsidies: The Case of Rural UDAG Grants
Marie Howland's paper, "Measuring the Cost and Accomplishments of Capital Subsidies: The Case of Rural UDAG Grants," examines the effectiveness and cost of low-interest loan programs for economic development, focusing on the rural component of the Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) program.
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.
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).
How Family Farms Deal with Unexpected Financial Stress (final report)
This paper's purpose is to facilitate effective decision making by individual farm families, non-farm persons in rural communities, and local to national public policy makers as they considered their responses to the unexpected farm financial reversals of the 1980s.
Job Creation, Business Growth and State Policy: Glimpses of the Third Wave
Paper seeks to analyze the role of entrepreneurship as a means of combining resources and adding value to institutions in order to improve public policy.
Rural America and High Technology
Document explores impact of tech industry growth and Rural community capture of job gains.
California Senate Concurrent Resolution No.34 – Relative to the state’s Hispanic population
Selection of California Senate Resolution discussing Hispanic population in California directed to Regents of the University of California.
Community Development Organizations and Research: What Works and Why?
This paper seeks to improve general understanding of how some local and regional nonprofit, public interest organizations successfully use research to inform their rural development strategies.