Rural Economic Development: What Makes Rural Communities Grow?

Lorna Aldrich andLorin Kusmin

United States Department of Agriculture

关键词: counties;    rural;    nonmetropolitan;    regional;    economic growth;    earnings;    economic development;   

RP-ID  :  AIB-737

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: United States Department of Agriculture Publications

【 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.