Rural America At A Glance, 2012 Edition highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. This year's edition focuses on the U.S. rural economy, including employment trends, poverty, and...

This article expounds the manifestations of imbalance between the rural credit cooperatives and rural economic relations: the rural credit cooperatives fail to effectively promote economic development in rural areas; the rural economy is also incapable of effectively promoting the development of...

Historically, the economic contribution of rural areas to regions was clear: it was the provider of farm produce and other raw materials such as coal. Rural employment was evidently based on the exploitation of natural capital. More recently this picture has been obscured by several trends such...

El objetivo del estudio es mostrar cómo han evolucionado las economías en Pomacanchi y Yanamarca —denominadas originalmente por Daniel Cotlear como “tradicional” y “moderna”)— en las últimas dos décadas y qué rol ha tenido la política pública, tanto aquella que es común a...

En un contexto de debate acerca del futuro de la sociedad rural en el Perú, esta publicación busca contribuir con algunas conclusiones y hallazgos de investigaciones realizadas en el seno del Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE). Aquí, se publican tres ponencias del Seminario...

Rapid population growth in many developing countries has raised concerns regarding food security and household welfare. To understand the consequences of population growth in a general equilibrium setting, we examine the dynamics of population density and its impacts on household outcomes using...

This research focuses on building a specific framework and to measure the contribution of landscape to the development of rural economy. The main issues are to be determined how CAP connected what the landscape and how it contributes to the competitiveness of rural economy. Analysis is made in...

This paper examines the impact of spatial connectivity development on household income growth and non-agriculture labor supply, combining household panel data and village census in Indonesia. Empirical results show that the impacts of the improvement of local road quality in the area (positively...

Nearly 4 million veterans reside in rural (nonmetropolitan) America. They are a rapidly aging and increasingly diverse group of men and women who still comprise over 10 percent of rural adults despite consistently declining numbers.