A Dynamic Regional Impact Analysis of Federal Expenditures of a Water and Related Land Resource Project -- The Boise Project of Idaho. Part II. Secondary Economic Impacts of the Boise Project of Idaho, 1947-1970

摘要

Secondary or induced economic impacts resulting from the Boise Project, an irrigation and power project in southwestern Idaho, are analyzed. The Project was built by the Bureau of Reclamation between 1910 and 1956 and is now managed for irrigation, power, recreation, and flood control. The Project has produced a thriving irrigated agricultural production area of approximately 340,000 acres as of 1970. This agricultural production in turn has resulted in the growth of supplying (input) industries and agricultural (output) processing industries. An aggregate economic input-output model is used to simulate the impact of the Boise Project on the Idaho economy.