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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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Innovative regional partnerships in the rural Tenth District
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Defining \\"rural\\" America
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New approaches to rural policy : lessons from around the world
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Beyond cows and corn : rural America in the 21st century
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Regional competitive advantage in the new millennium
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Gauging a region's entrepreneurial potential
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 ...
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Sprawl : friend or foe to rural places?