Geographic Targeting Issues in the Delivery of Rural Development Assistance
Geographic Targeting Issues in the Delivery of Rural Development Assistance

Author: Richard J. Reeder

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2010-09

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1437933025

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Discuss potential tradeoffs for distressed rural areas when shifting from one form of rural development assist. to another, particularly when shifting to greater use of gov¿t.-guaranteed loans. The study also uses correlation analysis to document the extent of targeting rural development programs to highly rural areas and to rural areas experiencing distress in the form of poverty, low employ., and population decline. Findings indicate that distressed rural areas might fare worse than other non-metro areas with some kinds of shifts, such as reducing grants and direct gov¿t. loans to fund increases in guaranteed loans. The effects on distressed areas would depend on the form of distress, the programs involved, and how they are targeted geographically.

Small Schools, Education, and the Importance of Community
Small Schools, Education, and the Importance of Community

Author: Tim L. Adsit

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2011-06-16

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1610480163

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Small Schools, Education, and the Importance of Community focuses on three successful approaches for using the school as a catalyst for community development and revitalization, particularly in rural areas. The strategies also work well in suburban and urban areas. The three approaches described include: leadership by K-12 teachers, administrators, and school boards, particularly in the areas of developing schools as community centers, community as curriculum, and school-based economic development. Succesful case studies are also included.

The Effectiveness of World Bank Support for Community-based and -driven Development
The Effectiveness of World Bank Support for Community-based and -driven Development

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Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0821363913

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Participatory approaches that involve local communities in their own development have gained substantial support among international donors over the past quarter-century and have become increasingly important in the work of the World Bank. Community participation is an approach to development that can be used with any Bank lending instrument and across sectors. Projects can involve communities in different ways--by sharing information, consulting, collaborating, or empowering them. The process of involving communities in project activities is also expected to contribute in most cases to communi.