Economic Development
Policy Proposals for Economic Development in the Rural South
Report produces a series of policy proposals designed to address the shortcomings and comparative disadvantages of rural Southern economic development.
Rural Family Economic Success: A Community Action Idea Book
This document, "STRENGTHENING RURAL FAMILIES: A COMMUNITY ACTION IDEABOOK," introduces the Rural Family Economic Success (RuFES) model, sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and compiled by the Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group.
Sundown on the Sunbelt?: Growth Without Development in the Rural South
This report analyzes economic development in the rural South, focusing on North Carolina.
The Slowdown in Nonmetropolitan Development: The Impact of Economic Forces and the Affect on the Distribution of Wages
This report, “The Slowdown in Nonmetropolitan Development: The Impact of Economic Forces and the Affect on the Distribution of Wages”...
New Partnerships for Industrial Efficiency and Growth: Selected Best Practices
This file is a document from the Northeast-Midwest Institute, dated August 16, 1991, detailing a policy retreat on encouraging utility involvement in economic development activities, specifically focusing on industrial modernization and energy-efficient technologies.
An Analysis of Rural Wastewater Facility Financing
Report is an effort to clarify the wastewater facility needs of rural and rural poor communities to assess the outlook for addressing these needs in light of changing environmental regulations.
Elderly Rural Americans
Document provides implications of a large and growing elderly population in Rural America, specifically.
Internal Migration and Population Redistribution
Report examines population redistribution in the 1970s pointing to several factors: 1970s energy crisis and labor force shift to mining, scattering of manufacturing into nonmetro areas, increased favorable views about rural life, increasing importance of recreation.
Issue Brief “U.S. Rural Demographic Trends and Issues in International Perspective” Workshop on Population Change and the Future of Rural America
Brief focuses on changing spatial patterns of population distribution in the United States.
The Interpenetration of Rural and Urban America
Author seeks to pose questions concerning definition of rural and urban America. Researcher focuses on defining rural America.
U.S. Rural Demographic Trends in International Perspective; An Issue Brief
Purpose of brief is to identify some of the major priority issues for research on rural population change that are emerging outside the United States
Creating Rural Opportunity: A State Rural Economic & Community Development Policy Academy, A Progress Report on the First Year of a Three Year Project
Materials provide detailed report on the first year of a three year project entitled the "state Rural Economic and Community Development State Policy Academy.