The past decade has seen a number of studies of how the poverty incidence (the percentage of families below the poverty line) of certain demographic groups changes in response to economic growth. In the pre!3ent study, the responsiveness of family income to regional economic growth is examined for a sample of rural and rural poor Wisconsin families with nonaged, nQndisabled heads. Ordinary leas...

* Director of Research, Federal Security Agency. BECAUSE CHILDREN ARE very unevenly distributed among families, their opportunities for development are very unequal. This article concerns the maldistribution of children and income in nonfarm families with income from wages or salaries only.1 Nearly half these children are in the oneseventh of the families which have three or more children, and ...

Rural economy has an important role in rural sustainable development in every region or country. However, the rural economy in Iran is too much depending on agriculture and development of other rural economy in particular nonfarm activities, has been neglected by Iranian rural communities. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify the role of non-farm business on rural sustainable develo...