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Economic and Social Indicators of Rural Development from an Economic Viewpoint

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Clark Edwards  and
Robert Coltrane
Clark Edwards
Affiliation:
Economic Development Division, Economic Research Service, USDA
Robert Coltrane
Affiliation:
Economic Development Division, Economic Research Service, USDA
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A disproportionately large share of our economic development problems, involving maldistributions of population, employment, and income, is found in rural areas. Although these problems directly affect the residents of rural areas, they are linked to economic problems in urban areas. Per capita income comparisons indicate the differential effects of economic development on the population. For example, per capita incomes of residents outside metropolitan areas are only about 71 percent of those in the orban-oriented ones. In addition, about one-third of all families live in nonmetropolitan areas, but over half of all low income families live there. Further, large geographic areas such as the Appalachian, Mississippi Delta, and Ozark regions are below the Nation as a whole in terms of the general level of economic development. Even in the urban centers of these rural regions, the average resident has not commensurately participated in the benefits derived from our Nation's economic development and growth. Comparisons of per capita income for different years show these maldistributions have persisted for decades.

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , July 1972 , pp. 229 - 245
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1972

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