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Download full textDeavers, Kenneth L.; Brown, David L. – 1985
Rural areas' population growth, location, level of economic activity and social well-being depend less on natural resource endowments than on such factors as transportation, communication, labor force characteristics, and urbanization. General causes of the 1970's urban-to-rural migration included fewer changes in the structure of agriculture,…
Descriptors: Community Development, Disadvantaged Environment, Economic Change, Income
Deavers, Kenneth L.; And Others – 1983
A paper examining recent changes in the social and economic development of rural America--with comments by a different author--and a paper discussing rural policy comprise this workshop collection. Placing the changes of the 1970s in a broader historical perspective and developing a general framework within which to consider the influence of…
Descriptors: Community Development, Definitions, Disadvantaged Environment, Economic Change
