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Title: |
Rural Development |
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| Edited by: |
Tadlock Cowan, Bruce E Foote |
| ISBN10-13: |
1600211615 : 9781600211614 |
| Illustrations: |
tables |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
140x215mm |
| Pages: |
157 |
| Weight: |
.248 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - September 2007 |
| List Price: |
69.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Subjects: |
Agriculture & farming : USA |
| In the post-World War II era, widespread rural poverty, most notably among farmers, dominated rural policy concerns. The Eisenhower Administration's Undersecretary for Agriculture, True D. Morse, began a rural development program in 1955 to assist low-income farmers. Because agriculture was the major economic activity in many rural areas of the time, a focus on farms and farm households became de facto rural policy. The war on poverty during the 1960s continued the focus on rural poverty as a central policy issue. When agriculture began to decline as rural America's dominant economic activity, policy attention shifted to rural revitalisation. The 1980s farm financial crisis and economic dislocation in rural America brought the importance of rural structural change to the forefront of policy concerns. The further decline of farming to less than 8% of rural employment and the loss of many manufacturing jobs during the past decade have highlighted the growing gap between many rural areas and the Nation's urban/suburban areas. While no overarching framework guides rural policy at the federal level, adequate housing, employment creation and business retention, human capital concerns, poverty issues, medical care, and infrastructure development remain key foci of federal rural policy. |
| Table of Contents: |
| An Overview of USDA Rural Development Programs; Economic Development Options and Constraints in Remote Rural Countries: A Case Study of the Great Plains Region; Rural Housing: USDA Disaster Relief Provisions; Index. |
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