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America's Forgotten People and Places: Ending the Legacy of Poverty in the Rural South: Discussion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Ntam Baharanyi ,
Robert Zabawa  and
Evelyn Boateng
Ntam Baharanyi
Affiliation:
Agricultural and Resource Economics Program and the George Washington Carver Agricultural Experiment Station, Tuskegee University
Robert Zabawa
Affiliation:
Agricultural and Resource Economics Program and the George Washington Carver Agricultural Experiment Station, Tuskegee University
Evelyn Boateng
Affiliation:
Agricultural and Resource Economics Program and the George Washington Carver Agricultural Experiment Station, Tuskegee University
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Abstract

These comments discuss the presentations by Christy, Wenner, and Dassie (“A Microenterprise-Centered Economic Development Strategy for the Rural South: Sustaining Growth with Economic Opportunity”) and Freshwater (“What Can Social Scientists Contribute to the Challenges of Rural Economic Development?”) in three sections. These are (1) a brief overview of the Southern Black Belt and its rural development needs, (2) an assessment of the microenterprise-Centered economic development strategy for the rural South, and (3) a quick review of what social scientists can contribute to the challenges of rural economic development. This approach also emphasizes the authors’ background at a historically black land-grant university, and the belief that as goes the Black Belt, so goes the rural South.

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , August 2000 , pp. 357 - 361
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2000

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