Eikenberry said part of the effort during the next 18 months will be to boost Afghanistan's economy so that Afghans are better able to fund their own troops.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

Despite signs of a gradually improving economy, job growth continues to lag in the U.S.Unemployment remains high at 10 percent after the economy shed another U.S.Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue says the reason is obvious: uncertainty is causing large and small businesses to think twice before hiring new workers.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

Aides to President-elect Barack Obama have been negotiating with Congress on a 2-year recovery plan for the world's largest economy.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Experts at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimated that the action cost Egypt's economy at least ninety million dollars.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

This is meant to protect against possible losses should anything unexpected crush those green shoots in the world's largest economy.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

Some investors worry that Americans are not doing enough to lift the world's largest economy out of recession.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

Britain's economy may have shrunk by 1% just in the final 3 months of last year.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

In the late eighteen eighties, a North Carolina farming publication described America's economy this way: "There is something radically wrong in our industrial system.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

One theory is that the military could object if the ruling party looks for friendship with South Korea to help save North Korea's economy.

VOA: special.2010.10.02

But a similar effort in the United States, the world's biggest economy, could take years.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

Critics considered an earlier measure too small to fight the recession in Europe's largest economy.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

South Africa is a nation of forty-nine million people and Africa's biggest economy.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

Bryan's main campaign idea was that the gold standard would ruin America's economy.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Today,Alaska's economy is tied to a large extent to the oil industry.

VOA: special.2009.03.02