economic decline

You don't think that economic decline is a reason for people to leave a city?

It is, they would tell me, the reason for the town's economic decline.

The city I grew up in knows what economic decline is about.

The area experienced serious economic decline from the late 1950s.

It will happen because the worst of the state's economic decline is over.

So far, the economic decline is more apparent than real.

Significant economic decline did not become apparent before the 1970s.

After six years of economic decline, inflation has been brought under control.

But this has made little difference and cannot stem the economic decline.

During the economic and social decline of the 13th century, however, unwanted children became a problem again.