Zimbabwe, which should be a fertile market for South Africa but is economically stagnant and politically unstable, is even less promising.

Magnificent churches still stand in towns that have been economically stagnant for over a century.

Moreover, while economically advanced societies have been changing rather rapidly, countries that remained economically stagnant showed little value change.

Car sales reflect the income split between Russia's economically stagnant east and the expanding west.

The designation of certain economically stagnant and often derelict areas as 'Enterprise Zones'.

Rather, he and other bank officials have called the current near-zero rates an unusual measure taken during Japan's economically stagnant 1990s that is no longer necessary.

Oakland Chinatown was economically stagnant for many years, especially after multigenerational Chinatown residents began moving to the suburbs in the late 1960s.

Misrule and a culture of victimhood have left Arabs economically stagnant and prone to seeing their problems in delusional terms.

For many, the future holds only unemployment in this economically stagnant nation, which obtained its independence from Pakistan 17 years ago.

In the 20th century, and particularly after the Second World War, Flanders saw an economic flowering while Wallonia became economically stagnant.