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Anderson, Jock R.; Feder, Gershon – 2003
This paper analyzes the considerations that lead policy makers to undertake extension investments as a key public responsibility, as well as the complex set of factors and intra-agency incentives that explain variations in performance between different extension systems. The goals of extension include transferring knowledge from researchers to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adult Farmer Education, Decentralization, Delivery Systems
New York State Legislative Commission on Rural Resources, Albany. – 1985
Participants in a symposium on economic development in rural New York State analyzed existing strengths and weaknesses of the state's rural areas and made policy suggestions relating to three broad goals: (1) ease government constraints on rural businesses in order to encourage growth and development; (2) build on and strengthen the positive…
Descriptors: Business, Community Characteristics, Economic Development, Economic Factors