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Rural Development Alternatives: Pennsylvania's Title V Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Joan S. Thomson*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Assistant for Cooperative Relations, Cooperative Extension Service Title V Project Leader, College of Agriculture, The Pennsylvania State University
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Extract

With the passage of the Rural Development Act of 1972 (Public Law 92–419), every state in the nation was challenged to provide rural development assistance through the land-grant universities. Operating under flexible guidelines, each state has proceeded differently. Comparison of various states’ programs provides some new insights on effective rural development programming.

Type
Title V Program in the Northeast
Copyright
Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

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This paper is Journal Series No. 5340 of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station.

References

1. Christensen, Robert L. and Ching, C. T. K., “Constraints on the Community Decision Process,” Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council, Vol. VI, No. 1, April 1977.Google Scholar
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