High-poverty nonmetropolitan counties in America: Can economic development help?

International Regional Science Review

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 415-440

  Partridge, Mark D ^a   Rickman, Dan S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Persistent poverty; Poverty; Rural economic development policies; Rural poverty

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; POVERTY; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL PLANNING;

EID: 26444469693     PISSN: 01600176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0160017605278998     Document Type: Review

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