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Wallace, George – Rural America, 2000
Directed at the chronically unemployed, poor single parents, and welfare recipients, microenterprise programs provide access to loans and technical training for the express purpose of creating small-scale self-sufficient entrepreneurs no longer dependent on public support. Lessons from international microenterprise programs, federal funding…
Descriptors: Basic Business Education, Credit (Finance), Economically Disadvantaged, Entrepreneurship
Download full textBould-Vantil, Sally – 1976
Four kinds of U.S. anti-poverty programs were analyzed in terms of their impact upon the rural poor. Examination of 13 rural Community Development Corporations (CDC) in terms of prior and present poverty of non-manager employees indicated the effect of these programs was one of merely changing the source of income rather than the stratification…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Evaluation, Federal Government, Local Issues
Jacqz, Jane W. – 1974
A meeting was held April 3, 1974, by the African-American Institute (AAI) to discuss the need for rural change and the strategies for achieving change in Africa. Participants in the meeting included two Africans who have leading roles in the economic development of their countries, representatives from 12 governmental and private agencies that are…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Developing Nations, Economic Change, Economic Development
Peer reviewedWilliams, Maurice – Convergence: An International Journal of Adult Education, 1978
From a report of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, presents the ingredients for a development program to help the world's poorest countries and people meet basic human needs. The program should include provisions for productivity and employment, food security, health services, lower rates of population growth, and…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Dropouts, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged
PDF pending restorationSummers, Gene F., Ed. – 1997
In this report, the Rural Sociological Society Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty presents 11 Pathways from Poverty (PfP) state-team efforts and accomplishments. Education and training are themes that appear here and there throughout the strategies described. Many PfP state teams have formed alliances with state rural development councils that…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Kaplan, Sylvan J., Ed.; Lindstrom, David E., Ed. – 1969
The purpose of the conference was to provide an opportunity for researchers, administrators, and persons working in Appalachia to inquire of one another what research has been and is being done relating to poverty and development in the region, and to recommend means for enhancing the prevailing effort. The importance of interinstitutional and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Agency Cooperation, Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs
