But simply directing financial resources to lagging regions will not be enough to solve their problems.

But the lagging regions are doing no better than many Sub Saharan African countries.

What, one wonders, are lagging nations waiting for?

In every currency union, there are creditor and debtor regions.

China would still have a vast, underdeveloped countryside, and would not equal the US in per capita income until sometime after 2075 (depending on the measures of comparison.)

Bit by bit, money trickled out to the regions.

China would still have a vast underdeveloped countryside.

These regions are trapped in poverty.

The leading regions have experienced rapid growth.

Deserts and dry regions are becoming drier.

The speech resonated within the country and the neighboring region.

Few economic regions have made much progress in this transformation.

Some regions of India have taken this discourse more seriously than others.

A large share of our assistance is focused on India s lagging states, making our work strongly inclusive.

Poor regions have a low base of economic activity to tax, which prevents them from investing in human and physical capital.

Lagging states spend considerably less than leading states on social services, including education and health care.

First, we need to increase our efforts to ensure that the Laggards are no longer left behind. This requires policy changes as well as more generous and more effective aid.

Even sub Saharan Africa, the traditional laggard, is expected to grow at 5 in 2010.

First, we need to increase our efforts to ensure that the Laggards are no longer left behind.

China's regions learned to specialize by competing fiercely for foreign investors.

Central government can easily starve the regions and local communities of their lifeblood.

Sending resources to impoverished places has merit.

Road blockades also impede the normal transit to other regions.

Locust swarmed many regions of Madagascar and even a few of its cities.

Moreover, poorer regions would do badly in such a system.

Other regions, however, are likely to be unable to provide productive employment.

All major regions of the world will need to be involved.

Toraja is an indigenous group in the mountainous region of South Sulawesi.

The surrounding regions of France are mostly Roman Catholic.

As more companies do so, laggards will be at a growing competitive disadvantage.

Other regions tried to imitate its success, but none succeeded.

Candidates toured selected regions of the country, meeting with small groups of voters.

They are also developing links to the outside world independent of China's central government.

With migration to leading regions low, poverty remains concentrated in the lagging regions.

The latter regions have more than substituted for the decline in natural capital by accumulating other capital assets.

It is feared that radiation will spread across every region of Japan, starting with Tokyo.

They did not comprehend the upward trend in prices before 1980, so bond yields, lagging behind rising inflation, were too low.

It is true that poorer EU countries tend to outgrow richer ones, but poor regions do not necessarily outgrow rich regions or even the country average.

This has led many Kenyans online to speculate on the criteria that was used to decide the primary network operators as it emerged that the regions listed as having no 3G network also happen to be the opposition s stronghold.

These poorer outlying regions are hugely dependent on public works projects for employment.

At risk regions would develop culturally appropriate ways to deal with the catastrophes most likely to affect them.

Few other areas in the world have been deemed an economic miracle for so long.

Whether or not recent rumors of bilateral US Iran talks prove true, such initiatives should be welcomed.

Some leading regions in India are now the envy of other middle income countries.

While the big players remain preoccupied with their internal changes, the region continues to smolder.