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Book chapter
Delta Economy
A Social and Economic Portrait of the Mississippi Delta, pp.239-255
Mississippi State University
12/1992
Abstract
Excerpt: The process of developing a sophisticated economy, with the ensuing benefits that accrue to the people who dwell within it, begins with infrastructure. That the Delta counties lack much of that critical infrastructure is transparent. Much, in this sense, can be gained from a glance at a road map of the region. But to describe that lack of infrastructure and spell out its significance to the social and economic well-being of a region is another matter. Infrastructure is significant in an economy, but it is also difficult to separate its economic effects from those of other major areas of development education, for example. One factor that may give infrastructure some precedence over education is that a highly educated person without a job to go to will simply leave the area. As Mississippi begins to do a better job of educating its citizens, it must also provide them with work that is commensurate with that education. Otherwise, the state and local money spent on education becomes a supplement to the tax base in those areas that do provide jobs for those workers. In economic development, the starting place must be infrastructure.
The perspective taken in this chapter is that of the corporation looking at the Delta as a potential location for one of its plants or offices. The fundamental aspect of infrastructure is described in the broad category of transportation. Each of the counties is discussed in some detail as far as the potential for short- and long-term developments is concerned.
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- Title
- Delta Economy
- Publication Details
- A Social and Economic Portrait of the Mississippi Delta, pp.239-255
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publisher
- Mississippi State University; Mississippi
- Identifiers
- 99380501489006600
- Academic Unit
- Commerce; Lewis Bear Jr. College of Business
- Language
- English