The Role of Small Towns in the Local Economy and Some Implications for Development Policy

Paul Courtney and Andrew Errington
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Paul Courtney: The Arkleton Centre for Rural Development Research, St. Mary's, King's College, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, AB24 3UF, tel: 01224 273418, e-mail: p.courtney@abdn.ac.uk
Andrew Errington: Department of Land Use and Rural Management, The University of Plymouth, Seale-Hayne Faculty, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 6NQ, tel: 01626 325664, e-mail: a.errington@plymouth.ac.uk

Local Economy, 2000, vol. 15, issue 4, 280-301

Abstract: Over recent years, socio-economic restructuring has tended to undermine the tradition al functions of small rural towns. Empirical evidence also suggests that significant proportion s of economic transactions are carried out through the region al, national an d international economy. Establishing the degree to which a settlement is integrated into its locality provides an indication of its contemporary function s an d potential role in rural development. In this paper, reliable measures of economic linkages are developed, and it is shown that the strength of local integration is a function of the existing economic structure of the town as well as its proximity to metropolitan centres.

Date: 2000
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