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Topics: rural sociology, rural economics
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Topics: rural economics, rural development
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Nov 12, 2015
11/15
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United States. Extension Service; Sinclair, J. M; Callahan, Edgemond Parker, 1907-
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Topics: rural sociology, rural economics
National Agricultural Library
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May 13, 2016
05/16
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United States. Department of Agriculture. Office of Information
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Topics: rural economics, rural development
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Topics: rural economics, rural development
Topics: rural sociology, rural economics
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Topics: rural sociology, rural economics
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May 13, 2016
05/16
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United States. Committee for Rural Development Program
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Topics: rural economics, rural communities, public services
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Topics: rural economics, rural communities, public services
Issued Sept. 8, 1955
Topics: rural economics, rural communities, public services
National Agricultural Library
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Nov 19, 2018
11/18
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United States. Farm Security Administration. Rural Rehabilitation Division
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Topics: rural economics, rural development, United States Farm Security Administration
Understanding the way farmers respond to risk is a prerequisite for sound agricultural policymaking. Clarifying established agricultural economic theory to describe how individuals make choices among risky alternatives and providing a more precise set of concepts for studying behavior under risk contributes to such an understanding. A mathematically rigorous approach ensures that concepts are defined unambiguously and results are established decisively, and finds that individuals' preferences...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Mathematical Formulas, Policy Formation, Risk, Rural Economics, Theories
Analysis of data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows that during the 1970s and 1980s the composition of personal income in rural America shifted dramatically. Transfer payments and investment income accounted for almost 40% of total personal income in the nonmetro United States in 1983, up from just over 20% in 1969. This report examines the various forms of unearned income and relates them to total personal income. Most transfer payments received by nonmetro residents in 1983 were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economic Change, Economic Research, Income, Rural Areas, Rural Economics
The roots of Appalachia's economic dependency go back to the region's first settlers in the 1730s. Historical and theoretical analysis of this phenomenon is useful in understanding the current status of the area, including, the status of education. The early settler sought a "competency"--enough productive property to support a family. Under preindustrial conditions, dependence on outside markets was not likely to cause impoverishment. But industrialization elsewhere in the United...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economic Development, Family Characteristics, Industrialization, Poverty, Regional...
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Calvert, H.
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Central Secretariat Library, Government of India Source URL: http://cslrepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/7320
Topics: Punjab - Economic Surveys, Agriculture - Punjab, Poverty - Punjab, Punjab - Rural economics,...
Source: Central Secretariat Library
Includes bibliographical references
Topics: Agriculture and state, rural sociology, rural sociology, rural economics, microeconomics, farm...
This training manual was designed to clarify issues and provide information to help individuals and groups facilitate the development of human service delivery in response to the changes occurring in rural communities. The presentation of the material was designed to be flexible in length of presentation, subject matter, and level of detail. The manual may be used as a regular textbook, in workshop presentations, and in a train-the-trainer format. The material is divided into five modules that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, Delivery Systems, Human Services, Resource Materials, Rural Areas,...
The changing structure of Southern farming amid the pressures of the farm crisis produces an information gap that has forced policymakers to rely on trial and error in institutional design. Existing data systems monitoring the farm sector either use the county as the primary observation unit, or they survey different individual farmers each year. A more useful strategy would have state experiment stations use primary data collection in a longitudinal design to survey farmers and the rural...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agricultural Trends, Data Collection, Economic Research, Experiment Stations,...
Rural communities in the West have lost jobs in traditional (i.e., resource based) industries, a change that has prompted a search for new employment opportunities. High-tech manufacturing has been the focus of considerable attention because of its potential for continued rapid growth. Many high-tech industries are dispersing geographically to small urban areas and nonmetropolitan counties. The growth, employment, and decentralization characteristics of high-tech manufacturing industries...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economic Development, Economic Opportunities, Economic Progress, Manufacturing, Rural...
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Mar 9, 2020
03/20
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Central Secretariat Library, Government of India Source URL: http://cslrepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/7051
Topics: Punjab - Economic Surveys, Agriculture - Punjab, poverty - Punjab, Punjab - Rural economics, Punjab...
Source: Central Secretariat Library
This short annotated bibliography is intended for use by policymakers in states and communities that are concerned with linking education and economic development in rural areas. It contains references to selected publications and resource materials (including audiovisuals) prepared with federal funds. The bibliography is divided into the following sections: (1) Rural Economy and Society; (2) Educational Characteristics; (3) Rural Job Creation; (4) Rural Job Creation: Cases; (5) Providing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Rural Areas, Rural Development,...
This collection of nine research papers concerning aspects of the economy of China were written by U.S. college and university professors who traveled to China as part of the Fulbright Hays Summer Seminars Abroad Program. The papers include: "The Impact of Economic Reforms on the Status of Women in China" (M. Eysenbach); "China's Agricultural Economy and Policies" (L. Fletcher); "China: Economic Reform and Social Welfare" (L. Geiger); "China's Foreign...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agriculture, Business, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Economic Progress,...
North-Central New Mexico has many of the problems common to other rural areas. Unemployment and underemployment rates tend to be high and per capita income relatively low. This study evaluated regional economic performance over a 19-year period (1949-1968) as compared to other regions and the nation. Shift analysis (a means of examining regional growth through study of relative shifts in economic activity) was used. This method of comparative-growth analysis measured regional performance...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns, Growth Patterns,...
Pennsylvania, like the United States, experienced a remarkable economic expansion through the late 1990s. The significant growth and change of this decade, however, did not equally touch all regions and all industries. Traditional sectors continued to decline, while growth in what has been dubbed the "new economy," considered to be the emerging service-and technology-based sectors, helped fuel the boom. Regional growth patterns also varied. The state's growth was centered in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employment Patterns, Industry, Counties, Rural Areas, Rural Urban Differences, Rural...
Controversy between two opposing factions have confused rural development policy formulation. Infrastructure advocates believe that the improvement of highways and sewer systems, as well as the provision of industrial park sites and industrial recruitment, are the keys to successful rural economic growth. Human resource development advocates promote structural change in rural areas through increased investments in education and effective leadership in rural communities. It cannot be deduced...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economic Development, Economic Progress, Human Resources, Labor Force Development,...
Topics: Radio Program, Agriculture, Industrial hygiene, Physiographic divisions, Rural economics,...
Both the rural economy and the disability community in rural areas can benefit from a recognition that they are mutually dependent. With the decline of rural America, the economic base underpinning all aspects of disability support systems is weakening. In addition, rural disability services often are compartmentalized along functional lines with varying degrees of internal interaction and weak linkages to community economic development efforts. Recent research suggests that a starting point...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Strategies, Community Relations, Community Services, Delivery Systems,...
Intended for rural development practitioners and extension educators, this publication examines trends and issues in the revitalization of rural America. Chapter 1 defines community economic vitality as the capacity to ensure a flow of jobs and income over time; focuses attention on the realities of competition between communities and the essential role of state government; and argues that vitality requires equal attention to supply, demand, and institutional factors. Chapters 2-5: (1) describe...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Development, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Economic Research,...
This report identifies factors that influence a rural area's economic success or failure, and evaluates whether federal programs efficiently address rural economic problems. Data collection included a review of federal programs that provide funding to rural areas, and interviews with federal and state agency officials involved with rural development and with local officials in 31 rural counties in 13 states. The counties selected were samples of counties that performed better than, worse than,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economic Development, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Government Role, Human...
In recent years, rural sociology has been the subject of sociological inquiries. Many of these have been highly critical, raising questions about the ontological nature of the discipline. This paper extends the tradition, providing a brief historical analysis of rural sociology's roots as both theoretical and applied and critiquing current rural sociology in a critical theory perspective. Questions about rural sociology's very being and how it could become more policy-oriented are raised....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Intellectual Disciplines, Long Range Planning, Policy Formation, Prediction, Rural...
The role of schooling in the economic development process has been targeted as essential in both human capital theory and modernization theories. Research into the nature of underdevelopment in Central Appalachia has provided a basis for debate among regional scholars as to its causes and consequences, yet serious discussion of pre-modern structural conditions of many rural and Appalachian schools is almost non-existent. This paper briefly reviews the themes and theories surrounding the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Human Capital,...
Community decision makers selecting an economic development strategy most appropriate for their local community must begin with an understanding of how their local economy functions, what its economic base is, and how changes in that base may affect local economic structure and performance. The economic base approach emphasizes the roles of exports and imports in generating local income and employment. Export promotion is a traditional strategy to stimulate more economic activity by enlarging...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Strategies, Community Planning, Economic Development, Employment, Financial...
Topics: Radio Program, Mountain ranges of Colorado, Economic development, Economics, Rocky Mountains,...
Testimony and prepared statements presented at a hearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Rural Economy and Family Farming focused on the concerns of rural small business. Witnesses included Senators from Montana, Illinois, New York, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa, and nine representatives of business, state government, federal agencies, education, and regional development agencies. Witnesses presented economic facts which described rural America as accounting for 25%...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economic Change, Economic Climate, Employment, Futures (of Society), Hearings, Job...
Some local governments in nonmetro areas--especially those in the rural West and in very rural areas--experienced high levels of fiscal stress in the mid-seventies that were associated with high and rising local taxes. These local governments may be forced to cut back their rural development activities in the eighties. Fiscal pressures on local governments were assessed by looking at locally raised revenues as a percentage of local income from 1972-1977. Areas with both high and rising revenue...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Financial Problems, Fiscal Capacity, Local Government, Low Income, Rural Development,...
Farm and ranch operators in North Dakota (n=933) and Texas (n=1,020) were randomly surveyed in 1985 to determine the relationship of financial conditions to levels of off-farm employment by farm operators and spouses. The overall response rate was 75%. Off-farm employment was measured by number of days the farmer or spouse was employed off of the farm for 4 or more hours and by intention to obtain off-farm employment during the coming year. Debt-to-asset ratio and 1984 net cash farm income were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economic Change, Employment Level, Employment Patterns, Farmers, Financial Problems,...
One of the purposes of the North Central Rural Sociology Sub-committee on Farm Organizations is to serve as a mechanism through which statewide studies of farm organizations in Wisconsin and Michigan would be partially coordinated. To communicate both the knowledge needs and the accumulated literature on farmers' organizations and movements to other researchers is the purpose of this bulletin. Part I of the bulletin comprises 3 essays that outline the sub-committee members' views on needed...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agriculture, Bibliographies, Cooperatives, Farm Management, History, Organizations...
The shifting structure of production agriculture in Louisiana, characterized by technological change and economic growth, has created problems for farmers, forcing them either to get large, get out of farming, or get off-farm work to survive. A survey of 142 farmers living in parishes surrounding the Baton Rouge metropolitan area indicates off-farm employment has been a principal source of income for Louisiana farm families. Approximately 68% of total family income received was for off-farm...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Blacks, Employment Opportunities, Family Income, Farmers, Females, Labor Force...
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Topics: Radio Program, NUTS 1 statistical regions of the European Union, United Kingdom, Island countries,...
The 15 papers presented in this conference report explore changes in Appalachian mountain life over the preceding three decades; the persistence of old problems, economic and cultural; and alternative paths for the future. Opening remarks by Wendell Berry focus on the value of community and on the survival of a community in an externally controlled economy. Other participants describe the persistent relationships between "bad economics" and bad local politics, the demise of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Action, Developmental Programs, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Low...
The Rural Opportunities Offer Tomorrow's Success (ROOTS) program is a series of policy initiatives which address problem areas in rural education, economic development, health care, and access to programs in Pennsylvania. Policy initiatives to create a better educated rural workforce include: (1) expanding career and financial counseling in rural school districts with low participation in higher education; (2) expanding teleteaching; and (3) developing recommendations for expanding 2-year...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Health Services, Opportunities, Public Policy, Rural Development, Rural Economics,...
National Agricultural Library
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Sep 10, 2015
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United States. Rural Electrification Administration
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Topics: rural economics auto-assigned by category code, rural communities auto-assigned by category code,...
A field study was conducted with a cross-section of the population in rural and urban Canadian regions to discover whether people were performing economic activities of significance to their well-being that differ from those society usually acknowledges as being economic in nature. In both rural and urban areas, the economy was viewed as being composed of formal (domestic) and informal (community) factions. Family networking and a mutual social support system were found to be essential...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Daily Living Skills, Economic Change, Family Life, Foreign Countries, Group...
The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Title II-A program is the main federal effort to enhance the employability of economically disadvantaged youths and adults. The amount of funds allotted to each state is determined by a formula that allocates two-thirds of available funds on the basis of relative unemployment levels and one-third on the basis of the number of disadvantaged persons in each state. This allocation formula produced a rise in expenditures per member of the civilian labor force...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Financial Support,...
Many small towns are considering community-based start-up funds (SUF) to foster development and retention of small businesses. But whether a community is large or small, a group must be well-organized before it begins to make decisions concerning the design and purpose of a small-business SUF. This primer highlights some main points a community should ponder before even starting on the long path to establish, operate, and maintain a local SUF successfully. It assumes that a community has...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Business Administration, Community Development, Community Programs, Economic...
Changes in rural financial markets as affected by bank deregulation have a potential impact on rural educational finance, specifically, financial aid programs for students and schools. Banking legislation and regulation changes have aimed to strengthen the industry and to provide consumers with more services and more choices among providers. Ownership of many banks is changing hands as holding companies acquire additional banks both within and beyond their home states. Most banks that disappear...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Banking, Educational Finance, Federal Legislation, Financial Needs, Financial Policy,...
In this publication, the authors review the historical development of South Dakota communities in the perspective of community change as it occurred in the United States resulting from several important societal factors during the period from 1940-1960. The authors emphasize that, while societal influences continue to operate, forcing adjustment at the local level, additional factors are stimulating further adjustment. Communities continue to grow and decline, depending upon how they are able...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agriculture, Demography, Industrialization, Migration, Population Trends, Rural...
