Download or read book Three Essays in Rural Development written by Jeremy Weber and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Rural Economic Development and Housing written by Tyler John Morin and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chapter 1, I explore the economics of rural place-based programs. Despite substantial funding going to regional economic development programs, little is known about the benefits of some of the smaller, place-based programs. I extend the literature on regional commissions by analyzing the economic gains to the Delta Regional Authority (DRA). The DRA was founded in 2000 to provide enhanced development aid to 252 lower Mississippi Valley counties. Using data from 1997 to 2016, the authors assess the DRA’s impact on employment, income, migration, and poverty. One-to-one propensity score matching is used to generate counterfactual counties. Due to the endogenous nature of the treatment, the authors instrument for counties being included in the DRA using a dummy for whether the county is within the lower Mississippi watershed. The ensuing results reflect an estimation of the intent-to-treat benefits of the DRA. I find that the DRA is associated with income gains and decreases in unemployment; however, it has no impact on poverty or migration. Chapter 2 explore the national state of rural housing affordability and quality. Rural areas have long lagged behind urban areas for at least a century. From declining rural populations, lower wages and poor economic outcomes, the slowing of economic growth has had multiple effects on these populations.
Download or read book Three Essays in Economic Development written by Matthew James Warning and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trade Planning and Rural Development written by Azizur Rahman Khan and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-06-18 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume of essays by a number of economists to honour Nurul Islam, an Asian economist who made important contributions as an academic economist and political planner. The essays fall under three subject headings - international trade and aid, planning and rural development.
Download or read book Three Essays on Rural Economic Growth written by Georgeanne Michael Artz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is a collection of three papers, each analyzing a particular issue related to economic growth in rural America. The first paper explores the problem of defining rural and the implications for measuring rural growth. It discusses the sample selection problem inherent in using classification methods based on population that change over time. Fast growing rural areas grow out of their rural status, so using the most recent definition of rural in an analysis of growth excludes the most successful places. The findings demonstrate that average economic performance of the areas remaining rural significantly understates the true performance of rural places and that conclusions about which factors affect growth are sensitive to how rural is defined. The second paper examines the economic consequences of industrial recruitment, focusing on the meat packing and processing industry. Growth in this industry has generated a significant amount of controversy regarding the costs and benefits of this type of economic development. The effects of the industry on social and economic outcomes in non-metropolitan counties of twelve Midwestern states are analyzed using a difference-in-differences approach. Results suggest that as the meat packing industry's share of a county's total employment and wage bill rises, total employment growth increases. However, employment growth in other sectors slows, as does local wage growth. We find no effect on the growth rates for crime or government spending. The final paper analyzes brain drain, the out-migration of young, college-educated workers, which is a serious concern for many rural areas. Existing research on this topic focuses predominately on young adults and does not capture individuals' long-term preferences for locations. This paper employs a mixed logic model to examine the role of college education and location specific capital in rural and urban residence choices of individuals over time. It extends current research in this area by including observations on individuals over time and by recognizing that preferences for rural areas vary in the population. Findings imply that higher levels of education do reduce the probability of choosing a rural residence; however, they suggest preferences for rural locations vary significantly in the population.
Download or read book Essays on Rural Development written by P. R. Dubhashi and published by Kaveri Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 32 Papers On Various Aspects Of Rural Development Classified Into Six Parts - Dimensions Of Development; Approaches To Rural Development; Policy And Planning; Organisation And Administration; Sectors Of Rural Development; And Case Studies Of Rural Development. Contents Part I- Dimensions Of Development; Chapter 1: Development: An Overview; Chapter 2: An Alternative Model Of Development: People Centered Development; Part Ii- Approaches To Rural Development; Chapter 3: Problems And Planning Of Rural Development In Developing Countries; Chapter 4: Approaches To Integrated Rural Development In India; Chapter 5: Integrated Rural Development Programmes: Suggestions For Improving Implementation; Chapter 6: Problems Of Extension And Finance For Anti-Poverty Programmes; Chapter 7: Integrated Rural Development Programme: The Need For A New Approach; Chapter 8: Communication And Rural Development-I; Chapter 9: Communication And Rural Development-Ii; Part Iii- Policy And Planning; Chapter 10: Agricultural Policy: Industry Status Not Feasible; Chapter 11: Agricultural Policy, Planning And Administration; Chapter 12: Agricultural Marketing; Chapter 13: Agricultural Census In India; Part Iv- Organisation And Administration; Chapter 14: Institutional Arrangements For Rural Development; Chapter 15: Ensuring People S Participation In Rural Development Programmes: Revive Local Institutions; Chapter 16: Rural Development Administration: Alternative Approaches; Chapter 17: Development Through Participation; Chapter 18: Adaptation Of Administration To Indian Rural Development; Chapter 19: Decentralisation For Rural Development: An Operational Framework; Chapter 20: New Thrusts In Decentralisation; Chapter 21: Power To The People; Chapter 22: Decentralisation And Rural Development: Asian Experience; Part V- Sectors Of Rural Development; Chapter 23: Command Area Development Programme; Chapter 24: Drought And Development; Chapter 25: Coping With Seasonality And Drought; Chapter 26: Some Economic Issues In The Rural Energy: Environment Conflict; Chapter 27: Need To Revive Rural Industries; Chapter 28: Rural Development And Concept Of Growth Centres; Part Vi- Case Studies Of Rural Development; Chapter 29: Saga Of Ralegansiddhi; Chapter 30: Saemaul Undong: South Korean Version Of Integrated Community Development; Chapter 31: Village Planning: An Experiment; Chapter 32: Rural Development And Local Organisation In Asia.
Download or read book Three Essays in Development Economics written by Céline Ferré and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays in Economic Development written by Paul Conal Winters and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Migration and Local Development in Two Rural Communities of Western Mexico written by Maria Valeria Galetto and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural India Facing the 21st Century written by Barbara Harriss-White and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an international team of young scholars, 'Rural India Facing the 21st Century' draws together a profound analysis of a broad range of issues to provide a masterly overview of overall rural development. Its highly original methodology and findings will be of considerable interest for development policy.
Download or read book Escape from Poverty Traps written by Kathleen Maura Farrin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Essay 2, I examine food price spikes and food insecurity, particularly among subsistence households who are vulnerable to price increases for staple goods. I begin with a review of the recent food security crises, presenting a taxonomy of policy response for 124 countries. Because long-term development projects are a favorable response, I focus on policies of market integration through infrastructure buildup. I present a model that captures the welfare effects of transportation constraints for poor farmers in a village economy; after numerically solving for an economy-wide equilibrium, I vary the transportation constraint to compare outcomes under different levels of infrastructure development. I find increased rates of food insecurity and higher, more volatile village prices when transportation capacity is capped for a net importing village.
Download or read book The Geography of Urban Rural Interaction in Developing Countries written by Robert Potter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1989, The Geography of Urban-Rural Interaction in Developing Countries addresses the nature and importance of the interaction between ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ areas within Third World national territories, providing much-needed comparative, cross-cultural, and cross-national material. The book discusses the various theories of urban-rural interaction, and summarises the topic in the form of the movement of people, goods, money, capital, new technology, energy, information and ideas. Case studies are drawn from different areas of the Third World – including Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Caribbean and illustrate in detail the nature of urban-rural interaction.
Download or read book Three Essays in Development Economics written by Shilpa Aggarwal and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters on development economics. The dissertation is focused primarily on the effects of road provision on rural households' decisions to invest in physical and human capital, specifically agricultural technology, health, and education. As a separate project, I also look at the impact of microcredit and microsavings on business-financing in sub-Saharan Africa.
Download or read book Three Essays on Migration Education and Household Development in Rural China written by Alan D. De Brauw and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Exogenous Shocks in Rural Areas written by David Alexander Fleming and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Agricultural Marketing in Developing Countries written by Aya Suzuki and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Development in China written by Xiaotong Fei and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-05-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays written from 1947-1986 by Fei Hsiao-tung, China's most distinguished sociologist and anthropologist, presents a rich and representative sampling of the research that has characterized his long career. In 1936, Fei conducted field work in Kaixian'gong, a village in Jiangsu province in east China. This village became the subject of his now classic study Peasant Life in China, in which he argued that, because of China's huge population and the scarcity of cultivable land, household industries such as production of raw silk were vital to the peasants' economic survival. His conclusions, long rejected by China's policymakers, have recently been embraced by the government under the political leadership of Deng Xiaopeng. Returning to Kaixian'gong in 1957 and again in the 1980s, Fei examined the changes that had occurred since his initial research. Three essays that resulted from these follow-up studies are included in this collection, providing a rare summary and analysis of developments in the village between 1936 and 1986. Also included here are four articles based on Fei's 1983-84 research in other areas of Jiangsu province. His explorations of the contrast between the wealth of southern Jiangsu and the long-standing poverty of the northern half of the province address key issues of public policy in China today. Useful to students of rural sociology as well as of Chinese history, politics, economics, and anthropology, this collection will provide an overview not only of developments in the small towns of China but also of Fei's thought.
