Editing Mark Drabenstott

'''Mark Drabenstott''' is a vice-president of the [[Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City]] and the director of the [[Center for the Study of Rural America|Center for the Study of Rural America (CSRA)]]. Drabenstott is also chair of the [[National Policy Association]]'s [[Food and Agriculture Committee]] and a director of the [[National Bureau of Economic Research]] at [[Harvard University]].

==Employment History==

Drabenstott joined the bank in 1981 and became a vice-president in 1990. He became director of the CSRA in 1998.

He has served as an advisor for the [[World Bank]] and has testified before [[United States Congress|Congress]] on at least 10 occasions.

==Writings by Mark Drabenstott==

* '''''Rural America in a New Century''''' was an October 1999 report by Mark Drabenstott, for the [[Center for the Study of Rural America]]'s newsletter ''[[The Main Street Economist]]''.

In the introduction the report notes that the farm [[economics|economy]] is in a deep slump and that there are major economic challenges facing rural communities within the [[United States|U.S.]] The second section is titled, ''"A new farm crisis?"'' and argues that it is important that the [[Government of the United States|government]] expands its assistance to rural communities. The article also questions whether concentrated and corporatized agriculture will be beneficial to the majority of rural communities and states, "Agricultural policy no longer cures rural ills."

* [http://www.kc.frb.org/PUBLICAT/EconRev/PDF/1q06drab.pdf  "Rethinking Federal Policy for Regional Economic Development"]
*{{cite journal|title=New Policies for a New Rural America|journal=International Regional Science Review|volume=24|issue=1|year=2016|pages=3–15|issn=0160-0176|doi=10.1177/016001701761012962|last1=Drabenstott|first1=Mark|s2cid=155022839}}
*{{cite book|author1=Mark R. Drabenstott|author2=Lynn Gibson|title=Rural America in Transition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FlFEAAAAYAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Research Division|oclc=18124844}}

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