Rural economic development through local self-development strategies

Cornelia Flora, Jan Flora, Gary Green and Frederick Schmidt

Agriculture and Human Values, 1991, vol. 8, issue 3, 19-24

Abstract: During the 1980s many communities turned to grassroots activities to promote economic development, rather than relying on industrial recruitment strategies. We evaluate the characteristics of these projects, their benefits and costs, and obstacles they face in the development process. The data are drawn from a survey of more than one hundred communities in the United States. Self-development efforts do not appear to replace traditional rural economic development activities, but may complement them. Self-development activities produce a wide variety of jobs that are taken primarily by local residents. The cost and availability of credit are major obstacles for self-development projects. Although self-development strategies should not be considered the primary economic development strategy for most rural communities, they do enable communities to build a more viable local economy. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991

Date: 1991
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