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Peer reviewedByerlee, Derek – International Migration Review, 1974
Descriptors: Decision Making, Economic Development, Migration, Policy Formation
Blakely, Edward J. – 1984
The major features previously used to define rural life now fail to describe much of rural America, as changes that place rural areas in the vanguard of American society are manifest in rural landscape, institutions, economic activity, and life. The principal policy thrusts of modernization and urbanization and the related theories of product…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Decision Making, Economic Development, Emerging Occupations
Peer reviewedConzen, Michael P. – Journal of Geography, 1986
Reviews some of the key changes affecting the Chicago region and examines the degree to which they have or have not altered the evolving spatial structure of metropolitan Chicago. Traces the historical legacy, economic matrix, and shifting social patterns, concluding Chicago has more human/urban depth than most western metropolises. (TRS)
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Climate, Economic Development, Economic Factors
Adams, Dale W. – 1969
This discussion paper points out how land reform was the principal component in the Alliance for Progress aimed at easing rural poverty. Major sections question: (1) the influence of land reform on agricultural productivity, (2) urbanization as a viable alternative to land reform, and (3) colonization as an economic alternative to land reform.…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Agriculture, Agronomy, Demography
Download full textHansen, Niles M. – 1971
Economic problems in rural and urban settings are discussed in this book. Central cities, suburbs, and rural areas are examined with particular emphasis on problems and opportunities in the South and in the Appalachian region. The regional commissions (the Ozarks Region, New England, etc.) and the role of the Economic Development Administration…
Descriptors: American Indians, Cultural Influences, Demography, Economic Development
Brown, David L.; O'Leary, Jeanne M. – 1979
Between 1960 and 1970 economic opportunity and progress for women in American non-metropolitan areas was mixed. While women in metropolitan areas were more likely to be labor force members than were non-metropolitan women, the difference in metropolitan and non-metropolitan labor force participation rates narrowed during the period. For women…
Descriptors: Blacks, Clerical Occupations, Demography, Economic Development
Green, Leslie; Milone, Vincent – 1972
Since the end of the Second World War, the development of Nigeria has been marked by rapid commercial, manufacturing and urban growth concentrated in three main areas: (1) the southwest, the port-city and Federal capital of Metropolitan Lagos; (2) the north, a central close-settled zone which embraces the cities of Kano, Zaria and Kaduna; and (3)…
Descriptors: Demography, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Housing
