Basic Economic Development Strategies:
Understanding, Using and Developing Data

Thomas G. Johnson
215 Middlebush Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211

By the end of the program, participants can access and/or collect socioeconomic data on a community, identify a community’s economic base, use various economic and fiscal impact tools, calculate economic baselines for local economies, and conduct sophisticated economic impact analyses.

Graduate Sequence Web sites are:
http://www.cpac.missouri.edu/library/johnsontg/agec441/index.html
http://www.cpac.missouri.edu/library/johnsontg/agec442/index.html

Format & Time Required:

• Two-semester sequence of graduate courses in Agricultural Economics.
• An extension in-service course in baseline development and analysis has also been offered to extension audiences.

Topic: Economic Development

North Central Regional Center for Rural Development
Iowa State University
107 Curtiss Hall
Ames, IA 50011-1050
(515) 294-8321, (515) 294-3180 fax

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Last updated August 31, 2004.