Ray Bollman, Agriculture Division / Division de l'agriculture Statistics Canada / Statistique Canada , , Canada, Ida Terluin, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands, Jaap Post , The Hague, The Netherlands, Frans Godeschalk, Agricultural Economics Research Institute LEI , The Hague, The Netherlands
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LEADING AND LAGGING RURAL REGIONS IN OECD COUNTRIES IN THE 1980S AND 1990S (assigned to theme O)

In this paper leading and lagging regions in OECD countries in the 1990s are identified, and a comparative analysis is made of leading and lagging regions in the 1990s with those in the 1980s. The labels ‘leading’ and ‘lagging’ are derived from total employment growth. In almost all studied countries, employment growth in the leading predominantly rural and intermediate rural regions in the 1990s tended to exceed that in predominantly urban regions. On the whole, it appeared that about half of all leading regions in the 1980s were still leading in the 1990s, and that also about half of the lagging regions in the 1980s were lagging in the 1990s.

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