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Community Empowerment A New Approach for Rural Development

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  • Reid, J. Norman

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The 1993 legislation creating the Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities program represents a departure in Federal policy toward developing low-income rural and urban communities. By combining flexible, long-term financing with strategic planning and performance benchmarking, the program helps impoverished communities to address structural problems comprehensively, rather than applying “stovepipe” programs to isolated issues. Although the program is only 3 years into implementation, the results are already remarkable. Rising congressional interest in the program’s success points to an expansion of the empowerment approach in coming years.

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  • Reid, J. Norman, 1999. "Community Empowerment A New Approach for Rural Development," Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, vol. 14(1), June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersra:289794
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.289794
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    1. Gray, B.C. & Lyne, Michael C. & Ferrer, Stuart R.D., 2005. "Criteria to monitor the poverty alleviation, empowerment and institutional performance of equity-share schemes in South African agriculture," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 44(4), pages 1-31, December.
    2. Pender, John & Reeder, Richard, 2011. "Impacts of Regional Approaches to Rural Development: Initial Evidence on the Delta Regional Authority," Economic Research Report 262240, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    3. Mildred Warner & Amir Hefetz, 2003. "Rural—Urban Differences in Privatization: Limits to the Competitive State," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 21(5), pages 703-718, October.

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