Synopses & Reviews
Currently, the research community lacks the capacity to provide accurate, up-to-date information about conditions and trends in rural areas. Bringing together some of the best known rural development researchers, this volume begins to build an information base that can serve as a foundation for rural development policy. It deals with four components of development—education, entrepreneurship, physical infrastructure, and social infrastructure. The opening chapters address two aspects of each component—the use of the component to achieve rural development and measuring the impact of its use. The volume then applies specific analytic methods of measuring impact to each component.
The opening chapters address two aspects of each component—the concept of using that component to achieve rural development and the concept of measuring its impact. The volume then examines analytic methods of measuring impact. Following an overview of analytic methods, chapters apply a different analytic technique to each of the components. The techniques considered include econometric models, computable general equilibrium models, input-output analysis, and the case-study method.
Synopsis
Currently, the research community lacks the capacity to provide the accurate, up-to-date information about conditions and trends in rural areas necessary for effective rural development policy. Bringing together some of the best known rural development researchers, this volume begins to build an information base that can serve as a foundation for rural development policy. It deals with the four "building blocks" of rural development--education, entrepreneurship, physical infrastructure, and social infrastructure. The opening chapters address two aspects of each component--the concept of using that component to achieve rural development and the concept of measuring its impact. The volume then examines analytic methods of measuring impact. Following an overview of analytic methods, chapters apply a different analytic technique to each of the components. The techniques considered include econometric models, computable general equilibrium models, input-output analysis, and the case-study method.
Synopsis
Explores the beginnings of an information foundation for rural development policy, examining the four key building blocks--education, entrepreneurship, and physical and social infrastructure.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-240) and index.
About the Author
THOMAS D. ROWLEY is a social science analyst in the Rural Economy Division, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, where he manages ERS's program of research support to the State Rural Development Councils and its involvement in the National Rural Development Partnership.DAVID W. SEARS is senior policy analyst with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce.GLENN L. NELSON is an economic counsultant in regional development policy in Ann Arbor, Michigan.J. NORMAN REID is director of Community Outreach Services for the Rural Business and Cooperative Development Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.MERVIN J. YETLEY is a former staff member of the Committee on Agriculture, U.S. House of Representatives, where he worked on rural development, agriculture, and trade issues.
Table of Contents
Tables and Figures
Introduction
Four Components of Rural Development
Education and Rural Development by Kevin T. McNamara and Brady J. Deaton
Education Production and Rural Economic Opportunity by Kevin T. McNamara and Brady J. Deaton
Entrepreneurship: A Strategy for Rural Development by Frank Hoy
The Impact of Entrepreneurship Upon Rural Development by Max S. Wortman, Jr.
Developing Rural Economies through Public Infrastructure by William F. Fox
The Economic Impacts of Infrastructure Development by Thomas G. Johnson
Social Infrastructure and Economic Development by Louis E. Swanson
Methods of Evaluation
Methods in Rural Development: Policy Analysis by Thomas G. Johnson
Policy Analysis with Econometric Models by Glenn L. Nelson
Towards Computable General Equilibrium Methods in Rural Economic Development by David S. Kraybill
Input-Output Analysis for Rural Development Policy: An Overview and Example of the Impacts of New Highways in Rural South Carolina by Mark Henry
Social Infrastructure: The Case Study by Sonya Salamon
Conclusion
Bibliography