Anita Brown-Graham describes the key components of lasting development in rural communities. She shared these insights in her keynote at the Richmond Fed’s Investing in Rural America conference in April 2023. Brown-Graham is a professor of public law and government and director of ncIMPACT, an initiative to help local leaders use evidence in policymaking, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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