Do Federal Funds Help Spur Rural Development?

Elliott Dubin and J. Norman Reid

Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, 1988, vol. 05, issue 01

Abstract: Nonmetro counties, home to about a fourth of the U.S. population, received only about a fifth of Federal funds disbursed in 1985. Fair? The answer to that is moot, because there are no agreed upon equity measures. Equity aside, however, the data suggest that Federal money supports very different programs in metro areas than in nonmetro areas. Spending in nonmetro areas focuses on income redistribution (welfare and retirement), not programs that promote development.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Political Economy; Public Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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