economic backwater

Thereafter, the city become an economic backwater, and the capital of its old great families were spent overseas.

Asia was an economic backwater when the European pipes were laid in the 1960's.

Though there were substantial improvements by the late 18th century, Spain was still an economic backwater.

Though the mill is empty today, modest gains have been made in the last three years throughout this economic backwater.

(Argentina was a cultural and economic backwater until the 19th century.)

Once the capitalist city-states of Italy lost their freedom, they became economic backwaters.

Throughout the 20th century Taitung remained an economic backwater.

Henan has still not, however, entirely shed its reputation as an economic backwater.

Under his rule, a country that a century earlier had rivalled the empire builders of Europe became a political and economic backwater.

He said he had jumped at their proposal because it offered tribe members a road out of an economic backwater.

Over the decade that followed, Libya was transformed from an economic backwater into one of the world's fastest-growing economies.

Kunming, because of its remote location, had been an economic backwater for much of the last three decades.

In the early days of the colony, Acadia was an "economic backwater", with few trade goods and little money to attract merchants.

Once an economic backwater, the country is now a European base for multinational manufacturers like Goodyear.

Guǎngdōng was an economic backwater until Deng Xiaoping's 'open door policy' opened up the province to development.

The local economy stagnated under Soviet occupation, which forcibly collectivized the farms in the area; it became an economic backwater.

Agriculture and the manufacture of goods will have become economic backwaters, employing fewer and fewer people.

Finland was then a political and economic backwater, and Finnish classical music was in its infancy.

When Scotland ratified the 1707 Act of Union, it was an economic backwater comprising poor farmers.

It will never give up that role, analysts say, but adhering to it without regional allies would condemn Syria to the political and economic backwaters.

Forget George Bush's campaign fly-around this week aimed at depicting Arkansas as a sluggish economic backwater.

Geared to supply a hinterland half a continent wide, it became an economic backwater, its geographical significance drastically reduced by history's tides.

It became an economic backwater after that trade declined, and this freeze in economic development enabled the town to preserve its Renaissance urban plan and appearance.

Despite slowly sinking into economic backwater, Smolensk was still valued by Tsars as a key fortress defending the route to Moscow.

But seven years after the start of those wars, Mr. Milosevic, now the isolated leader of an economic backwater, has spent the good will of his people.