Alternate regional economic forecasting approaches were reviewed, including demographic, geographic, gravity/potential, location quotient, economic base, input-output, shift-and-share, and econometric. The current status of regional forecasting systems in state government was reviewed, also.

This report presents statistical reference series for the study and projection of Minnesota's economic outlook in the 1980's, with special emphasis on four major sectors--agriculture and agribusiness, manufacturing and services, mining and tourism, and government spending.

This paper addresses the growing concerns of local governments and residents about the high costs of urban spillover into adjoining rural areas. From a rural agricultural perspective we focus on the loss of productive agricultural land and open space. From a metropolitan core city perspective...