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STRENGTHENING RURAL ECONOMIES: Programs that Target Promising Sectors of a Local Economy

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  • Alan Okagaki
  • Kris Palmer
  • Neil S. Mayer
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    Strengthening Rural Economics: Programs that Target Promising Sectors of a LocalEconomy examines how a strategy of concentrating economic developing effort on a sector of businesses that are located near each other and share other common features can expand economic opportunities and produce jobs in rural areas. The report describes four diverse cases in which such a strategy has been used at least in part with the intention of increasing employment among low income people – and with some success.

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    Paper provided by HUD USER, Economic Development in its series Economic Development Publications with number 39028.

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    Length: 85 pages
    Date of creation: Dec 1998
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    Handle: RePEc:hud:wpaper:39028

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