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On behalf of Economy Watch, greetings and welcome to the Mississippi Regional Economic Analysis Project. Using the interactive regional economic tools of analysis at your disposal on this website, we invite you to conduct your own research to examine and assess changing economic conditions and trends of your county or region of interest. Economy Watch seeks to provide relevant and readable information about economic news affecting Mississippi, specializing in consumer and business confidence indices. Economy Watch is a collaboration between BankPlus, Entergy, and the College of Business at Mississippi State University. Executive Editor, Economy Watch Rebecca Campbell Smith, Ph.D. Phone: (662) 325-7473 Mobile: (662) 617-5243  If your interests align with examining broader trends across the Mississippi's regional landscape, apply the interactive diagnostics available at the "click of a mouse" and select from among an assortment of principal indicators of major importance: Investigate a topic all too often overlooked relating to how the changing mix and role of property income, transfer payments, earned income, and their contributions to growth, have transformed the Mississippi regional economy against the backdrop of changes nationwide. The cornerstone of the Mississippi Regional Economic Analysis Project is the annual data compiled by the Regional Income Division of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), U.S. Department of Commerce encompassing more than 4 decades−from 1969 to 2009. To compare and assess Mississippi's economy in contrast with other states of your choosing, enlist the use of the "Comparative Trends Analysis" in the United States Regional Economic Analysis Project  At your disposal are the 82 Mississippi counties, the 5 metropolitan statistical area compilations, and the metro and non-metropolitan areas made available by BEA. To further enhance your investigation of the Mississippi economy in a regional context, the data and analysis are also assembled into multicounty regions that align with those of the Momentum Mississippi. Momentum Mississippi is a statewide, public, private partnership dedicated to the development of economic and employment opportunities in Mississippi (http://www.momentum-ms.org).  The inclusion of this regional configuration is in support of Momentums Mississippi's mission to engage colleges and universities in furthering its economic development mission, and to foster a broad strategic view for tracking difference in economic growth and change across Mississippi's landscape. |
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