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Branch Plants and Rural Development in the Age of Globalization

July 7, 2011  • Amy Glasmeier, Amy Kays and Jeffery Thompson, Rob Gurwitt

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Branch Plants and Rural Development in the Age of Globalization, by Amy Glasmeier, Amy Kays and Jeffery Thompson, with Rob Gurwitt, 1995. To survive in the global economy, rural communities must lear to deal with employers in new ways and to transform the way they pursue economic development. Changing economic circumstances have already compelled the business world to transform itself; governments at every level must also rethink their economic development practices. This publication contends that, unless they do, they will be powerless to prevent their communities from being relegated to the farthest margins of an economy that is growing less hospitable to rural development by the year.