Books Reviewed: Michael L. Lahr and Ronald E. Miller (eds.), Regional Science Perspectives in Economic Analysis: A Festschrift in Memory of Benjamin H. Stevens Graham Clarke and Moss Madden (eds.), Regional Science in Business Luis Suarez-Villa, Invention and the Rise of Technocapitalism Sam...

This study used a telephone survey of coordinators of local Business Retention and Expansion Programs (BR&E). The focus of the of the study was to survey BR&E coordinators who conducted programs in the last five years to better understand the factors that lead the community and the coordinator...

An experimental training program for extension agents brought agents and specialists into daily contact for eighteen months, enabling them to share information about their respective work environments. The lessons learned can increase mutual understanding between agents and specialists. Such...

Shift-share analysis is a method of decomposing regional income or employment growth patterns into expected (share) and differential (shift) components. Since its inception in the 1940s, over seventy academic contributions have criticized, defended, and extended the original concept. These...

This synthesis shows the need to update and improve household-level information on Rwanda’s coffee sector, so that appropriate policies may be put into place to increase the level and diversity of smallholder and rural business income.

This synthesis shows the need to update and improve household-level information on Rwanda’s coffee sector, so that appropriate policies may be put into place to increase the level and diversity of smallholder and rural business income.