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Persistent Rural Poverty: Is It Simply Remoteness and Scale?
Author(s) -
Partridge Mark D.,
Rickman Dan S.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
applied economic perspectives and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.4
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 2040-5804
pISSN - 2040-5790
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9353.2007.00357.x
Subject(s) - poverty , scale (ratio) , economics , development economics , geography , economic growth , cartography
Despite declines in national poverty measures during the 1990s, high rates of poverty have persisted in several pockets of rural America. The poverty rate exceeded 20% in 356 counties in each of the 1979, 1989, and 1999 censuses of population (Partridge and Rickman, 2005b). Almost 28% of people in completely rural counties were in persistent poverty (PP) counties (U.S. Department of Agriculture). The academic literature lists remoteness and the lack of economic scale as