Economic Development
Manufacturing Assistance Program Needs Assessment Guide: Volume 1: Regional Needs Assessment Approaches
Part I of the Manufacturing Assistance Program Needs Assessment Guide.
Manufacturing Assistance Program Needs Assessment Guide: Volume 2: Firm-Level Needs Assessment Approachment
Part II of the Manufacturing Assistance Program Needs Assessment Guide.
Small Towns, Big Picture: Rural Development
Report focuses on refining efforts to take advantage of changing rural economic development opportunities through grounding them in an understanding of certain related and long-term trends.
Industrial-Strength Strategies: Regional Business Clusters and Public Policy
Book explains, explores and illustrates how policymakers and practitioners, particularly in rural areas- can move toward cluster-focused economic development.
Mil Duncan’s Comments on Rural American Policy
Remarks by Mil Duncan on RSS Session "Rural America, Rural Women, and Public Policy."
Ten Essential Ingredients: Designing State Programs That Work In Rural Communities
Guidebook is intended to highlight innovative and successful actions, policies and programs which states can use to help individual rural communities.
Understanding State Economies via Industry Studies
Paper describes key analytical concepts that have shaped some of the most effective efforts in state economic development research and policy formulation.
Rethinking State Development Policies and Programs
This report created to educate Governors about long-range economic development policy and the decisions they make related to new business investment and expansion of existing firms.
Rural Telecommunications Meeting Summary
Summary of meeting of telecommunications and rural development professionals from across the United States held to review the status of rural telecommunications and to recommend courses of action to advance the field.
Globalization and The North American Free Trade Agreement: Impact on Rural Communities 1993 Conference Program
This document is an index for “GLOBALIZATION AND THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT: Impact on Rural Communities,” a conference...
From The Bottom Up: Toward a Strategy for Income and Employment Generation Among the Disadvantaged
This Aspen Institute report, "FROM THE BOTTOM UP: Toward a Strategy for Income and Employment Generation Among the Disadvantaged," by Fred O'Regan and Maureen Conway (March 1993), details an interim study on local programs aimed at poverty alleviation and employment generation in the United States.
Gilpin County Regional Planning Commission Resident Recreation and Parks Survey
This report, presents the findings of a resident recreation and parks survey conducted in February 1993 for Black Hawk, Central City, and Gilpin County, Colorado. The study was a cooperative effort between the Regional Planning Commission, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and The Aspen Institute.