Rural Knowledge Center

Rural Resources, Insights, and Collaborations by Aspen CSG and Partners

Collaborative Strategies for Rural Health & Economic Prosperity

Insights and recommendations to do rural development and rural health differently—moving collectively toward equitable rural development with projects grounded in place and a people-centered vision of community impact.

Community and Economic Development Topics

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Rural Strategies & State Development Budget

Paper provides insights from 50 collected interviews with rural development administrators and practitioners in Texas.

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Smart Firms in Small Towns: An Overview

This book provides overview of small to medium enterprises within the context of "third-wave" state economic development policy.

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Business Finance as a Tool for Development (book)

This book provides insight into successful development finance strategies, focusing on Linked deposit programs, loan guarantee and loan insurance programs, and business and industrial development corporations.

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Survey of the Future of the Plains

This report examines impact of changing financial markets on rural capital availability.

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Rural Revitalization & Telecommunications Study

This study seeks to examine common economic revitalization assumptions against the actual experience of the people living in the communities where some new applications of telecommunications services are based.

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Studying Communities in Transition: A Case Study of Superior, Nebraska

Case study examines communities in transition in order to understand health community success in small towns across the Midwest.

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Rural Development Councils: Preliminary Findings and Conclusions

Report reflects the experience of the eight Rural Development Councils initiated as part of the Federal Rural Initiative that provides a baseline of information on the organization and early development of the effort.

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Draft Report on Financial service Industries in Rural Areas

Draft report seeks to analyze effect of technological innovation and deregulation on financial services industries in rural areas.

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Rural Development Councils: Volume 2

Contains eight state case studies that have been developed to track the development of the federal-state initiative.

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Policy Proposals for Economic Development in the Rural South

Report produces a series of policy proposals designed to address the shortcomings and comparative disadvantages of rural Southern economic development.

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Best Practices: New Partnerships for Industrial Efficiency

Report presents four of the most progressive industrial energy-efficiency programs in order to provide insight for future programs.

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The Budgetary Implications of Reducing U.S. Income Inequality Through Transfer Programs

Report uses data from the Census Bureau regarding list and asset information at the household level to provide perspective on relative costs of reducing income inequality by increasing program benefits.