Economic Development
Value Added and Subtracted: The Processed Potato Industry in the Mid-Columbia Basin
This report, titled "Value Added and Subtracted: The Processed Potato Industry in the Mid-Columbia Basin," examines the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of the frozen potato products industry in the Mid-Columbia Basin of Washington and Oregon.
Representing Rural America: Development Needs and Policy
This report summarizes the survey over thirty experts in the rural economic development sphere (directors of grassroots rural organizations, policy institutes, rural advocates, state and federal government officials, congressional aides, academics, and general policy experts.)
Business Finance as a Tool for Development (final book)
This file, titled "BUSINESS FINANCE AS A TOOL FOR DEVELOPMENT," is a 1992 publication by The Aspen Institute's State Policy Program. Authored by Deborah Markley with Katharine McKee, it examines the evolution and best practices of state development finance programs. The document highlights the shift in state economic development strategies from "smokestack-chasing" (subsidized relocation) in the 1960s-70s to fostering homegrown businesses in the 1980s.
Utilities and Industries: New Partnerships for Rural Development
The file discusses new partnerships between utilities and industries for rural development. It emphasizes the importance of utilities in stimulating economic development activities, particularly in small towns and rural areas that lack resources to cope with economic change. The document proposes a state-based program where utilities actively partner to encourage modernization of industrial process technologies.
Exploding Myths about Rural Entrepeneurship
This file is a research paper titled "Exploding Myths About Rural Entrepreneurship" by Terry F. Buss and Mark Popovich. It challenges common misconceptions about rural entrepreneurship using survey data from 1,428 start-up entrepreneurs and employment tax files from five states: Iowa, North Dakota, Michigan, Maine, and Arkansas.
Leadership Through Partnerships: The National Trust’s Main Street Program as a Community Economic Development Tool
This article, "Leadership Through Partnerships: The National Trust's Main Street Program as a Community Economic Development Tool" by John C. Shepard (1992), examines the Main Street Program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The program uses a "grassroots and bootstraps" approach, combining historic preservation with economic development to revitalize historic commercial districts.
The Economic Development Strategies of the Great Plains Studies
This report, titled "The Economic Development Strategies of the Great Plains States," was prepared by the Center for the New West in June 1992. The principal author is Louis D. Higgs, with Claudia Giannetti as contributing author. Funding for the report was provided in part by the State Rural Policy Program of the Aspen Institute and The Ford Foundation, the Denver Regional office of the US Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, and the Center for the New West.
State Economic Development Programs and Local Needs: Where Is The Common Ground?
This report, titled "State Economic Development Programs and Local Needs: Where Is The Common Ground?", explores the disconnect between the economic development needs perceived by local policymakers in rural Mississippi and the state-level policies designed to address them. The research, funded by the Aspen Institute and the Ford Foundation, was conducted by the John C. Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State University in 1992.
State-Federal Collaboration on Rural Development
This report, "State-Federal Collaboration on Rural Development," by Thomas Unruh and Jay Kayne, published in 1992 by the National Governors' Association (NGA), examines intergovernmental and public-private collaboration in rural development. The NGA, a bipartisan forum for governors, conducts research through its Center for Policy Research, which supported the creation of this report with a grant from the Ford Foundation through The Aspen Institute.
The Strategic Development Organization: Visionary Leadership For State Economic Development
This report from Jobs for the Future, published in August 1992, examines Strategic Development Organizations (SDOs) and their role in state economic development.
Gearing Up for Success: Organizing a State for Rural Development
Purpose of this book is to provide states-and their rural development partners- with some guidance that will better enable them to create and implement successful rural development strategies.
Forwarding the Rural Development Agenda
Report serves as an intelligence gathering support document in order to suggest areas to focus capacity development efforts in terms of issues needing to be addressed, possible approaches and suggested target audiences for the Aspen Institute's Rural Development Program.