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Defining and Measuring Rurality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Blair J. Smith  and
David W. Parvin Jr.
Blair J. Smith
Affiliation:
Georgia Experiment Station, Experiment, Georgia
David W. Parvin Jr.
Affiliation:
Georgia Experiment Station, Experiment, Georgia
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“Rural Development” is a phrase much in the news and literature. Both the terms rural and development are used somewhat ambiguously, though the niceties of having quantitative measures for each term are readily recognized by researchers. Although what constitutes development and how it should be measured is a very important question, the focus of this paper is on the term rural.

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , July 1973 , pp. 109 - 113
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1973

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