Rural Economic Development: What Makes Rural Communities Grow?

[摘要] Factors related to local and regional economic growth are attractiveness to retirees, right-to-work laws, excellent high school completion rates, good public education expenditures, and access to transportation networks. These were associated with improved county earnings in 1979-89, according to a multiple regression analysis of rural counties. Factors associated with poor earnings growth included higher wage levels, concentrations of transfer-payment recipiency, and concentrations of small independent businesses in the goods-producing sector.

[发布日期] 1997-10-01 [发布机构] United States Department of Agriculture

[学科分类] 农业科学（综合）

[关键词] counties;rural;nonmetropolitan;regional;economic growth;earnings;economic development