New approaches to rural policy : lessons from around the world /

New approaches to rural policy : lessons from around the world /

How do we ensure that the millions of people living in rural areas have the skills to be productive and build prosperity? Policy officials and experts from 15 countries, including the entire G7, came together in Washington D.C. to discuss the need for innovative new approaches to rural policy. Chair...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Paris : OECD, 2005
Subjects:
POLITICA AGRICOLA
POBLACION RURAL
DESARROLLO RURAL
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Conference conclusions
  • Pt. 1. The need for new rural policy: The new economic imperative in rural regions / Donald Johnston
  • Thinking regionally in a globalizing economy / Alan Greenspan
  • Prosperity and productivity / David Sampson
  • Pt. 2. The rural policy laboratory: New regional partnerships in the United States / Gilbert G. Gonzalez
  • Rural entrepreneurship: a cooperative case study / Bob Militello
  • The micro-region strategy in Mexico / Antonio Sánchez Díaz de Rivera
  • Linking rural policy and regional development in western Canada / Oryssia Lennie
  • Reducing the territorial divide in France: redefining regions / Nicolas Jacquet
  • Federal co-ordination in Austria / Wolf Huber
  • The living countryside in the Netherlands / Kees de Ruiter
  • Rural development in Europe: approaches and future perspectives / Francesco Mantino
  • Pt. 3. The future of rural policy: Five themes in the future of rural policy / Mark Drabenstott
  • Where is rural policy headed? / Sergio Soto Priante
  • Challenges for the future of rural policy / Richard Wakeford
  • Annex A. Conference program
  • Tables
  • Figures.

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