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Toward a Development Policy for Rural America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Paul W. Barkley
Paul W. Barkley*
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Washington State University
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Rural America can only be defined as non-urban America. It includes nearly all of America's land area and is home for over one-fourth of the nation's people. Although some rural areas are very prosperous and even in the not-so-prosperous regions, some individuals and families have succeeded in their economic endeavors, there seems always to have been an inordinate amount of poverty and a slow erosion of opportunity-generating activity in many or, more likely, most rural regions.

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Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , October 1988 , pp. 93 - 98
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Copyright © 1988 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

Was on leave with the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, when this paper was written.

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