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New approaches to rural policy : lessons from around the world : a conference summary
Weiler, Stephan; Drabenstott, Mark; Novack, Nancy (2004-07)
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, ...
Economic Review , Volume 89 , Issue Q III , Pages 97-104

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Gauging a region's entrepreneurial potential
Henderson, Jason; Low, Sarah; Weiler, Stephan (2005-07)
Regions are facing rapidly evolving pressures from today?s global economy. The old rules of the game, where traditional assets such as cheap land and labor determined a region?s success or failure, no longer apply. Instead, new categories of assets are shaping economic prospects?assets like workforce skills, lifestyle amenities, access to capital and information, and innovative activity. Finding new pathways to tap these assets makes economic success much easier. The first step along each new pathway is to measure a region?s assets. The Center for the Study of Rural America is working to ...
Economic Review , Volume 90 , Issue Q III , Pages 61-89

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New governance for a new rural economy : reinventing public and private institutions : a conference summary
Weiler, Stephan; Drabenstott, Mark; Novack, Nancy (2004-10)
A growing chorus of rural leaders agrees that new opportunities are on the horizon for rural America. Economic consolidation and outmigration need not be rural America?s future. The question most rural regions now face is this: How to claim the new opportunities? At root, this question is all about governance?how regions make economic decisions quickly and effectively. Simply put, regional governance is about how public and private leaders work together to build new economic engines that can compete in globalizing markets. More than 150 rural policy experts and leaders gathered in Kansas City ...
Economic Review , Volume 89 , Issue Q IV , Pages 55-70

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New governance for a new rural economy : reinventing public and private institutions
Weiler, Stephan; Drabenstott, Mark; Novack, Nancy (2004-08)
Main Street Economist , Issue Aug

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Sprawl : friend or foe to rural places?
Weiler, Stephan (2005-12)
Main Street Economist , Issue Dec , Pages 14-15

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Rural America's new path to workforce skills
Henderson, Jason; Weiler, Stephan (2005-07)
Main Street Economist , Issue Jul

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Beyond cows and corn : rural America in the 21st century
Henderson, Jason; Weiler, Stephan (2004-10)
Main Street Economist , Issue Oct

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Small bank lending : tapping opportunities for rural growth
Henderson, Jason; Weiler, Stephan; Moore, Sean (2005-08)
Main Street Economist , Issue Aug

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Regional competitive advantage in the new millennium
Weiler, Stephan (2004-12)
Main Street Economist , Issue Dec , Pages 6-7

Journal Article
New approaches to rural policy : lessons from around the world
Weiler, Stephan; Drabenstott, Mark; Novack, Nancy (2004-06)
Main Street Economist , Issue Jun