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Innovative regional partnerships in the rural Tenth District
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A catalog of innovative regional partnerships, part two
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Regional competitive advantage in the new millennium
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Beyond cows and corn : rural America in the 21st century
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Rural America's new path to workforce skills
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Small bank lending : tapping opportunities for rural growth
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New approaches to rural policy : lessons from around the world : a conference summary
New approaches to rural policy are badly needed, as past reliance on subsidies and policies focused on a single sector are yielding diminishing results. Fortunately, a new frontier of policy experiments is emerging, and this frontier holds great promise in helping rural regions seize new economic potential. ; This was the consensus of more than 120 leading officials and rural policy experts from around the world who gathered near Washington, D.C., on March 25-26, 2004, to explore new approaches to rural policy. The conference was jointly sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, ...
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Amenities, local conditions and fiscal determinants of factor growth in rural America
This paper examines how amenities, asset indicators, and fiscal factors influence the growth in factors of production from 1972 to 1999 in the 466 non-metropolitan labor market areas in the continental United States. In developing our model of non-metropolitan factor markets, we combine the emphasis of Brown et al. (2003) on the affect of taxes and public expenditure policy on labor and capital formation with the emphasis of Beeson et al. (2001) on the importance of climate and natural features on localized population growth. We develop our own measure of capital stock in non-metropolitan ...
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New approaches to rural policy : lessons from around the world