Despite its rapid growth, the economy of Benin still remains underdeveloped and dependent on subsistence agriculture, cotton production, and regional trade.

After four years of solid macroeconomic performance, Cambodia's economy slowed dramatically in 1997-98 due to the regional economic crisis, civil violence, and political infighting.

Manufacturing and retail sectors became dominant among Midwestern cities, influencing the American economy, particularly in meatpacking, with the advent of the refrigerated rail car and the regional centrality of the city's Union Stock Yards.

Given the small population of the region ( compared with the Central Canadian provinces or the New England states ), the regional economy is a net exporter of natural resources, manufactured goods, and services.

The regional economy has long been tied to natural resources such as fishing, logging, farming, and mining activities.

In recent years, however, the Maritime regional economy has begun increased contributions from manufacturing again and the steady transition to a service economy.

Improvements in infrastructure and the regional economy notwithstanding, the three provinces remain one of the poorer regions of Canada.

Since the 1990s the region has experienced an exceptionally tumultuous period in its regional economy with the collapse of large portions of the ground fishery throughout Atlantic Canada, the closing of coal mines and a steel mill on Cape Breton Island, and the closure of military bases in all three provinces.

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, " the Federal Reserve has the authority and financial resources to act as ' lender of last resort ' by extending credit to depository institutions or to other entities in unusual circumstances involving a national or regional emergency, where failure to obtain credit would have a severe adverse impact on the economy.

In addition to this direct employment, the government heavily subsidizes other major employers in other areas of the economy, including Great Greenland's sealskin purchases, Pilersuisoq's rural stores, and some of Air Greenland and Royal Arctic's regional routes.

In the context of regional economic development, further integration into the Eastern Caribbean regional economy will help enhance Grenada ’ s competitiveness and increase its scale of economy in production, marketing and distribution.

* Allen J. Scott ( born 1938 ), winner of Vautrin Lud Prize in 2003 and the Anders Retzius Gold medal 2009 ; author of numerous books and papers on economic and urban geography, known for his work on regional development, new industrial spaces, agglomeration theory, global city-regions and the cultural economy.

Overall, the Honduran manufacturing sector has mimicked other sectors of the economy — it is mostly noncompetitive, even in a regional context, because of insufficient credit and the high cost of inputs.

With the world's seventh largest military expenditure, ninth largest economy by nominal rates and third largest by purchasing power parity, India is a regional power, a nascent great power and a potential superpower.

The main obstacles to Jordan's economy is scarce water supplies, complete reliance on oil imports for energy, and regional instability.

* Macroeconomic model, an economic model representing a national or regional economy

Although no longer a member of the OAU ( Organisation of African Unity ) since November 12, 1984 — following the admission of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as the government of Western Sahara — Morocco remains involved in developing the regional economy, as the city of Casablanca contains North Africa's busiest port and serves as the country's economic center.

Since 1989, when local and regional self-government was gradually reintroduced and the market economy was introduced, Toruń, like other cities in Poland, has undergone deep social and economic transformations.

The country has begun to integrate itself into the regional and global economy by joining international organizations.

A falloff in Wall Street's economy could have " wrenching effects on the local and regional economies ".

Within South Korea, the most important regional difference is between the Gyeongsang region, embracing Gyeongsangbuk-do and Gyeongsangnam-do provinces in the southeast, and the Jeolla region, embracing Jeollabuk-do and Jeollanam-do provinces in the southwest.

Slovenia is one of the focus countries for the United States ' southeast European policy, aimed at reinforcing regional stability and integration.

On June 5, 2007, the regional subsidiary of national broadcaster DR reported that a hill, Kobanke, situated in the southeast near the town Rønnede in Faxe municipality, with a natural point of terrain at 122. 9 m ( 403. 21 feet ), was the highest natural point on Zealand.

Harrow town centre is located to the southeast of Hatch End and is a regional centre for higher order goods, with two shopping malls and a 9-screen cinema, along with numerous restaurants, places of entertainment and bookshops.

The Estates is just east of the North County city of Poway and southeast of Ramona ; northeast of San Diego and from the regional center of Carlsbad.

Lithonia is home to the major regional shopping center in the southeast Metro, the Mall at Stonecrest ( also known as Stonecrest Mall ).

The Huntley Outlet Mall is a regional outlet mall located north of I-90, at the southeast corner of Illinois Route 47 and Freeman Road.

In addition to The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press, regional newspapers serving all of southeast Michigan, the city is served by two community newspapers.

It is bordered by Pogradec District and the Republic of Macedonia to the north, by Greece with the Florina regional unit ( Greek Macedonia ) to the east, Devoll District to the southeast, by Kolonjë District and Përmet District to the southwest, and by Gramsh District and Skrapar District on the west.

* Faculty of Medicine has its own campus area and it is fully integrated in the regional hospital southeast from the city center, Kontinkangas, Oulu.

Although the settlement itself is little more than a farming and horticultural community, its location at this mid-way junction is thus of considerable regional importance, as is the larger settlement of Beaumont, some six kilometres to the southeast.

Montréal / Mascouche Airport, the largest regional airport in Quebec, is three kilometres southeast of the city.

One of the best examples of regional variation is in the southeast, where ham, not sold in Jewish delis, is often the most common meat sold.

Other examples of large regional park systems are the Huron-Clinton Metroparks in southeast Michigan ; and the Three Rivers Park District in Minnesota.

Its busy border point Kapshticë / Krystallopigi connects the district with the Greek regional units of Florina and Kastoria to the east and southeast.

Karditsa borders the regional units of Trikala to the north, Larissa to the east, Phthiotis to the southeast, Evrytania to the south, Aetolia-Acarnania to the southwest and Arta to the west.

The village is located in the southeast of Kumamoto and the north of the regional center Hitoyoshi.

It lies approximately southeast of Legnica, and west of the regional capital Wrocław.

Sorting MID assignments in numerical order reveals a regional structure, with the first digit 2 assigned to Europe, 3 to North America and the Caribbean Sea, 4 to Asia ( not the southeast ), 5 to the Pacific and Eastern Indian Oceans and Southeast Asia, 6 to Africa, the Atlantic and Western Indian Oceans, and 7 to South America.

However, distinct regional variations appear between the northern movies made primarily in the Hausa language, the western Yoruba movies, the Edo language movies shot in Benin City, and the Igbo movies shot in the southeast.

Monterey Regional Airport is a regional airport located three miles ( 5 km ) southeast of the central business district ( CBD ) of Monterey, a city in Monterey County, California, USA.

* the western part of the Halifax Regional Municipality, i. e., the part lying west of a line drawn south from the intersection of the boundary between the regional municipality and the County of Hants with the western shoreline of Pockwock Lake along the shoreline to the western extremity of Ponhook Cove, then south in a straight line for approximately 2. 7 km to the mouth of the Pockwock River at Wrights Lake, southeast in a straight line for approximately 3. 8 km to the northern extremity of Stillwater Lake, south along that lake, southwest along Route 213 ( Hammonds Plains Road ) to Trunk 3, southeast in a straight line for approximately 18. 6 km to the mouth of the Nine Mile River, southwest along Shad Bay ( passing west of Cochrans Island ) to the Atlantic Ocean.

The term South Appalachian Province was originally used by W. H. Holmes in 1903 to describe a regional ceramic style in the southeast involving surface decorations applied with a carved wooden paddle.