Full Report | Report Title | Report Author | Synopsis |
 01-08 | Identifying Obstacles to the Success Of Rural Business Incubators | NBIA | N/A |
| 01-07 | Delusions of Grandeur: The Search for a Vibrant Rural America | David Freshwater | N/A |
| 01-06 | Targeted Economic Development Programs in Florida: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis | Cynthia Rogers and Jill Tao | N/A |
| 01-05 | Employment Risk in Nonmetropolitan Counties in the Southern U.S. | Eric Thompson and George W. Hammond | N/A |
| 01-04 | Do Meta-Standards Help Pave the Rural High Road? Firm Strategies Surrounding ISO 9000 Certification | Timothy R. Wojan | N/A |
| 01-03 | Wireline-based Communication Access Technologies in Rural Kentucky | Jason Hartell | N/A |
| 01-02 | The Interactions Between Economic Growth and Environmental Quality: A Comparison of the TVA Region with the United States as a Whole | Tulin Johansson | N/A |
| 01-01 | Development by Design: Land Use Planning and Regulation in Rural Communities | Thomas Rowley | N/A |
| 00-16 | Patchwork Income | Coalition For Jobs and the Environment | N/A |
| 00-15 | Service Industries Have Powered Growth of Employment in the U.S. South in Recent Years: A Geographical Perspective | William B. Beyers | N/A |
| 00-14 | Three Papers on Rural Development | David Freshwater | N/A |
| 00-13 | Identifying Employment Structure and Training Needs in the Louisiana Value-Added Wood Products | Richard P. Vlosky and N. Paul Chance | N/A |
| 00-12 | Employment Growth in Rural TVA Counties: Does Establishment Size Matter? | Mark S. Henry, David L. Barkley, Yu Bai, and Jae Espey | N/A |
| 00-11 | Clusters in Rural Areas: Auto Supply Chains in Tennessee and Houseboat Manufacturers in Kentucky | Stuart A. Rosenfeld, Cynthia D. Liston, Marcia E. Kingslow, and Eric R. Forman | N/A |
| 00-10 | Entrepreneurship-Centered Economic Development: An Analysis of African American Entrepreneurship in the Southern Black Belt | Ralph D. Christy and Wylin Dassie | N/A |
| 00-09 | Social Impacts of Large Scale Economic Development Projects in the Rural South: A Longitudinal Re-Study of Vance, Alabama and the Impacts of Mercedes Benz | Ralph B. Brown, Clark D. Hudspeth, and Katherine L. Stone | N/A |
| 00-08 | Keystone Sector Identification | Maureen Kilkenny and Laura Nalbarte | N/A |
| 00-07 | A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of the Effectiveness of Credit Pooling for Infrastructure Financing on Economic Growth in Rural Southern Counties | Mona Ray and James Hite | N/A |
| 00-06 | Telecommunications Infrastructure in the Southeastern United States | Edward J. Malecki and Carlton R. Boush | N/A |
| 00-05 | Worker Attitudes Toward Skills Training in the Rural South | Thomas W. Ilvento and Anil Rupasingha | N/A |
| 00-04 | Community Opinions on Economic Development in the Rural South | Thomas W. Ilvento | N/A |
| 00-03 | The Informal Economy in Rural Community Economic Development | Shanna Ratner | 5K |
| 00-02 | Demand for Skills Training in the Rural South | Anil Rupasingha, Thomas W. Ilvento, and David Freshwater | N/A |
| 00-01 | Federal Spending and Economic Growth in Southeastern Nonmetropolitan Counties | F. Carson Mencken | N/A |
| 99-12 | Rural America at the Turn of the Century | David Freshwater | 25K |
| 99-11 | Economic Development Cooperation Among Local Governments in the Tennessee Valley | Steven Brent Lackey and David Freshwater | 5K |
| 99-10 | The Extent Friendship has a Role in Retiree Recruitment and Retention in South Carolina: Survey Results | Kenneth Backman and Melissa Hawkins | 20K |
| 99-9 | The Long-Term Development of Local Retail and Service Spending in Rural Southeastern Counties | Eric Thompson and George Hammond | N/A |
| 99-8 | A Survey of New Cooperative Ventures Since 1994 | Adrienne Bernardi and Kimberly Zeuli | N/A |
| 99-7 | Digital Telecommunications Technologies in the Rural South: An Analysis of Tennessee | Edward J. Malecki | 54K |
| 99-6 | The Prospects of High-Growth Enterprises: A Retrospective Analysis of Georgia-Based Firms | Emil E Malizia and Rebecca M. Winders | 9K |
| 99-5 | Impact of Foreign Exports On Tennessee Counties | Raman Vishwanathan | N/A |
| 99-4 | e-Cities: Twenty-First Century Thinking for Small Town Living | Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation | N/A |
| 99-3 | Internationalizing the Rural Southeast: Determinants of the Decision to Export | Steven G. Livingston | 25K |
| 99-2 | The Graying of the Rural Southeast: Shifts in personal Income Composition. | Robert A. Chase | N/A |
| 99-1 | Rural telecommunications: Why your community isn't connected and what you can do about it. | Tom Rowley | 9K |
| 98-10 | Evaluating the Effectiveness of Local Watershed Organizations | Alan R. Collins, Susan Hunter, and Steve Selin | N/A |
| 98-9 | Industry Clusters in the TVA Region: Do They Affect Development of Rural Areas? | Mark Henry, David Barkley, and Yibin Zhang. | 737k Map
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| 98-8 | Small Business Creation and Economic Well-Being of Non-Metropolitan Counties: The Case of Georgia | Rebecca M Winders | 9K |
| 98-7 | Examining the Seedbed Potential Characteristics of Certain Manufacturing Industries: A Case Study of the Houseboat Manufacturing Firms in the Lake Cumberland Region of Kentucky | Steven Brent Lackey | 9K |
| 98-6 | The Appellation d'Origine Controlee (AOC) | Celine Albert, TVA Rural Studies | N/A |
| 98-5 | 'Fragile Virtue:' Rural Labor Market Response to a New Competitive Environment | Timothy Wojan | N/A |
| 98-4 | County-Level Determinants of High-Technology Firm Locations: 1988-94 | Stephan Goetz | 9K |
| 98-3 | Location Decisions of Energy-Intensive Manufacturing Firms: Estimating the Potential Impact of Electric Utilities Deregulation | Stephan Goetz | 9K |
| 98-2 | West Virginia Attitudes Toward Economic Development | Scott Loveridge and Beth Loy, West Virginia University | Abstract |
| 98-1 | The Value of Preserving African and Native American CultureA North-Central Mississippi Example | Alicestyne Turley-Adams | 9K |
| 97-3 | A Piece of the Action Increasing Minority Ownership of Manufacturing in the Rural South | RTS - Regional Technology Strategies, Inc. | 11K |
| 97-2 | Testing For The Effects of Federal Economic Development Agencies | David Freshwater, Timothy Wojan, Dayuan Hu and Stephan Goetz. | N/A |
| 97-1 | An Assessment of the Experience of Area Development Districts in Kentucky with Mandated Strategic Planning | David Freshwater and Melissa Taylor. | 13.7K |
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