ESTIMATION OF EMPLOYMENT MULTIPLIERS FOR PLANNING IN OZARKS NONMETROPOLITAN COUNTIES

Labor and Human Capital,

Analyzing the feasibility of domestic rural water supplies in Missouri with emphasis on the Ozarks region

Cover title."Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Missouri-Columbia, in cooperation with Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture."Includes bibliographical references

Optimal Location of the U.S. Broiler Industry

Livestock Production/Industries, Marketing, Productivity Analysis,

Potential for Retail Trades in Rural Communities

"2/87/2.5M."Local decisionmakers in rural trade centers are faced with a number of questions concerning future growth of retail trades. What types of retail businesses can a community support? How many firms can thrive in the community? How many employees wiU there be? In which trades is there already an overcapacity? In which trades is there potential for expansion? To help answer these questions, the numbers of firms and employees in nonmetropolitan towns for 33 retail trades were obtained from Dun and Bradstreet data files for Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.Includes bibliographical reference

Understanding Your Community's Economic Base

Community leaders continually make important decisions that affect their community's economic growth and development. To make informed decisions, leaders need a thorough understanding of the community's economic base. This guide explains a method to measure a local economic base and compare it with other communities.Reviewed October 1993

Missouri County Sales Tax Act : its impact on nonmetropolitan counties

In 1979, Missouri property taxpayers paid a total of $1.15 billion in property taxes to local governments. Legislation passed in the 1979 General Assembly may provide a means of substituting sales tax revenues for a portion of the property tax burden. This guide outlines the County Sales Tax Act and provides a means for evaluating the impact of this act on county residents and property taxes.Reviewed October 1993

Planning a Central Sewer System for Rural Areas

Rural areas may need planning assistance more than other areas. Population increases in non-metropolitan areas in the 1970s are more than offsetting the decreases of the previous decade. As population densities increase in these rural areas, community leaders must investigate alternatives to the individual septic tank and absorption field.Reviewed October 1993.Includes bibliographical reference

Planning a Rural Fire Protection Service

Fire remains one of the major problems of this country and causes more loss of life and property than all natural disasters combined. Small towns and rural areas reported a greater frequency of fires with higher death rates and dollar losses per capita than larger cities and metropolitan areas. As more people move into small towns and rural areas, provision of adequate fire protection services becomes even more important. The following information can assist local decision makers in planning new or additional fire services.Reviewed October 1993

Computing Slow Manifolds of Saddle Type

Slow manifolds are important geometric structures in the state spaces of dynamical systems with multiple time scales. This paper introduces an algorithm for computing trajectories on slow manifolds that are normally hyperbolic with both stable and unstable fast manifolds. We present two examples of bifurcation problems where these manifolds play a key role and a third example in which saddle-type slow manifolds are part of a traveling wave profile of a partial differential equation. Initial value solvers are incapable of computing trajectories on saddle-type slow manifolds, so the slow manifold of saddle type (SMST) algorithm presented here is formulated as a boundary value method. We take an empirical approach here to assessing the accuracy and effectiveness of the algorithm.Comment: preprint version - for final version see journal referenc

Economic Base Multipliers and Community Growth

An economic base study gives detailed information about how a community earns its living. The study attempts to answer the following questions: What are the current sources of employment and income? Which of these sources depend on markets outside the local economy and are affected by external forces? These we call basic. Which of these sources serve markets within the local economy? These are called non-basic.Reviewed October 1993