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.

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Rural Workforce 2000: Skill Upgrading

Report seeks to address the importance of upgrading the skill levels of rural works to match the skill levels of available jobs.

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The Impact of Deregulation on Rural Commercial Credit Availability in Four New England States: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications

Report highlights the role of Local commercial banks as an important source of capital for small businesses within their local service areas.

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The Rural Disadvantage: Growing Income Disparities Between Rural and Urban Areas

This paper demonstrates a widening income gap between rural residents and urban residents.

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Rural Policy Issues: Papers from Aberdeenshire

Paper provides case study analyses of rural policy issues in both Western Europe and North America

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Working Below The Poverty Line in Rural and Urban America

This report examines how the earnings of American workers changed from 1970-1990

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Creating Opportunity for Rural People and Places: A State Rural Economic Development Policy Academy

Report is a policy proposal for the CSPA Policy Academy, designed to deliver intensive assistance to states in rural policy development.

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What Next for Sustainable Agriculture?

Paper considers issues that sustainable agriculture is expected to face as it moves on from an abstract concept to a more transformative tool of agricultural system.

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Foreign Investment, Industrial Linkages, and Regional Development.

Study focuses on the regional and rural implications of foreign direct investment in the United States (FDIUS).

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Recommendation for Delegated-Authority Grant

Document provides background and summary of a grant that would underwrite planning process for a major initiative to link rural advocacy and policy research organizations active U.S. rural poverty and development through HandsNet, a telecommunications company.

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The Rural Poor: What We Know and What We Need to Know

Report examines gaps in adequate policy-oriented research on the rural poor and what can be done to resolve it.

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Laboring For Less: Working but Poor in Rural America

A profile of the working poor outside metropolitan areas, and an exploration of the factors that lie behind the increase over the past decade in the ranks of the working poor in nonmetro areas.

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Rural America in The Information Age: Telecommunications Policy for Rural Development

Paper underscores the potential role that the Telecommunications Industry can play in rural economic development through broad reaching enhancement of industries in various rural regions.