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Creating Opportunity for Rural People and Places: A State Rural Economic Development Policy Academy

Barbara Dyer,  Mark G. Popovich,  James M. Souby   |   January 7, 1990
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Report is a policy proposal for the CSPA Policy Academy, designed to deliver intensive assistance to states in rural policy development. The Academies will include a carefully-focused synthesis of the theory and practice of rural development and intensive policy development assistance. Each academy will assist gubernatorial appointed policy teams from eight to ten states. Academies seek to address areas of economic development pertaining to workforce training, poverty, and income growth particularly.

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