Community and Regional Planning Program

 

Date of this Version

Fall 12-10-2014

Document Type

Article

Citation

OKUMU SIMON CORNELIUS

Comments

Thesis Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Master of Community and Regional Planning, Major: Community and Regional Planning, Under the Supervision of Professor Rodrigo Cantarero. Lincoln, Nebraska: December, 2014

Copyright (c) 2014 Cornelius S. Okumu

Abstract

The Nebraska state department of economic development, just like any other state’s department of economic development in the United States receives funding for economic development programs. These programs are mostly geared toward revitalizing economic situations of villages, cities or counties that are under economic distress. The purpose of this paper is to assess how the Nebraska Department of Economic Development (NEDED) currently measure distress in Nebraska Counties, and develop composite distress indexes that might improve the measure, interpretation and use of Economic distress index to help in their allocation of Economic development resources to Nebraska counties.

Advisor: Rodrigo Cantarero

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