| Navigating the Nevada Economy Data & Tools for Understanding Our State & Our Local Economies Situation: Even though local leaders may well appreciate the importance and need for better information and understanding of trends and developments within their local economy they frequently lack the resources and staff trained to know: Where to look for and access the pertinent data; and How to manipulate, organize, synthesize, analyze, interpret and portray the data once they have it. (This, is what the NV-REAP web site is all about!)
Rural areas are especially limited in their capacity to initiate and undertake the applied research needed to establish a sound baseline of information and analysis for building a broad collective understanding of where they've been, where they are, and where they are going. Even more affluent larger communities and jurisdictions can make better use of scarce and limited resources if they could access and use web-based tools for doing regional economic analysis to diagnose and assess changing local area economic conditions and trends.
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