The movement of businesses and people away from city centers led to the economic weakening of many downtown areas.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

A city report says economic activity last year totaled almost three billion dollars, a four percent decrease from two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

A report from last year said women business owners are responsible for three trillion dollars a year in economic activity.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

Among those expected from President Obama's new administration is Lawrence Summers, the director of the National Economic Council.

VOA: special.2009.01.23

A spokesman for the Convention and Visitors Bureau,Steve Lewis,says economic activity last month was down five percent from February of last year.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

But what really set this economic downturn apart from others,he says, was the severity of the banking crisis.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

Economic losses from the disease amount to an estimated one percent of the African economy each year.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

She says the original books written during the Depression served as an escape from difficult economic times.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

That means early signs of economic recovery, like the way plants begin to shoot up from the ground as a sign of spring.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

Economic losses from the disease represent an estimated one percent of the African economy each year.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

The plan,separate from President Barack Obama's economic recovery legislation, could total two trillion dollars.

VOA: special.2009.02.13

The numbers are from the Economic Research Service at the Department of Agriculture.

VOA: special.2010.12.07

For several years, the nation had suffered from a serious economic depression.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

And mixed economic signals continue to call into question how long it will take for the country to emerge from recession.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

And in so doing, they have diverted people's minds from the incredibly harsh economic conditions that beset the country,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

Shmatko had just returned from Singapore, where he accompanied President Medvedev on this weekend's Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Chulalongkorn University political science professor Naruemon Thabchumpon says many people do not directly benefit from the government's economic programs.

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

From biology to ecology to medicine, somewhat higher. qualified the biosciences are recognized globally as dynamic drivers of modern economic progress.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Speaking through a translator, he blasted the U.S.economic embargo of Cuba and noted Cuba's exclusion from the summit.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

Both were able to start businesses in Washington with a small loan from the Latino Economic Development Corporation.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

The declaration calls recovery so far from the global economic crisis uneven and fragile, with unemployment at unacceptable levels in many countries.

VOA: standard.2010.06.27