From 1997 to 2004, Michigan was listed as the only state to top the 10, 000 mark for the number of major new developments ; however, the effects of the late 2000s recession have slowed the state's economy.

Due to its small size and relative lack of geological resources, its 2000s economy relies primarily on the sale of banana crops, and the income generated from tourism, with additional input from small-scale manufacturing.

As for employment, a longtime weakness of the Spanish economy, after having completed large improvements over the second half of the 1990s and during the 2000s ( decade ), which put a few regions on the brink of full employment, Spain suffered a severe setback from October 2008, when it saw its unemployment rate surging to 1996 levels.

With the growth of the economy of the country, Yerevan has been undergoing major transformation as many parts of the city have been the recipient of new construction since the early 2000s, and retail outlets such as restaurants, shops and street cafes, which were rare during Soviet times, have multiplied.

Popular in the late-1990s and early-to-mid 2000s, SUVs sales have since declined due to high oil prices and a declining economy.

The country eventually transitioned to become a market-oriented democracy in 1987 largely due to popular demand for reform, and became a developed economy by the 2000s.

This encouraged many people from around the country to move into the city, and some have not moved back to their home districts after the revitalization of the economy in the 1990s and 2000s.

Until the early 2000s when its economy was tied to the steel industry, Sydney had been overlooked as a tourist destination, with the more centrally located scenic village of Baddeck being a preferred location for tourists transiting the Cabot Trail, however Sydney has recently witnessed a revival as a result of significant government investment in cruise ship facilities and a waterfront revitalization plan which has seen a boardwalk and marinas constructed, and the world's largest fiddle.

France's economy entered the recession of the late 2000s later and left it earlier than most comparable economies, only enduring four quarters of contraction.

Since the early 1980s to the late 2000s, Scottsboro has seen substantial population growth and an economy moved away from its rural agrarian post to a more diversified one.

Bentonville is home to a significant large Hispanic immigrant community, consisting of Mexicans and nationalities from Central America such as El Salvador and Honduras, came to find blue-collar jobs in the area's booming economy during the 1990s and 2000s.

Since health-care needs remain fairly consistent regardless of the economy, this field was not subject to the same pressures that affected other industries in the early 2000s.

With the decline of oil prices in the 1980s, the local economy suffered and Nederland experienced slight population losses, but has stabilized in the late 1990s and 2000s.

Oroville started to become a tourist location in the mid 2000s with large condo developments being placed, the town had an economy peak in 2005-2007 but is now suffering due to the recession.

In the early 2000s, Podgorica's financial and service sector expanded rapidly and its economy became more service-oriented.

Thus far, the developed world has transitioned from an agricultural economy ( pre-Industrial Age, largely the agrarian sector ) to industrial economy ( with the Industrial Age, largely the manufacturing sector ) to post-industrial / mass production economy ( mid-1900s, largely the service sector ) to knowledge economy ( late 1900s – 2000s, largely the technology / human capital sector ).

Nevertheless, the economy rebounded somewhat in the first decade of the 2000s and the peninsula remains the most industrially developed and urbanized region in northern Russia.

After the economic slump of the 1990s, the economy of the oblast started to rebound during the first decade of the 2000s, although at a rate below the country's average.

With the success of Ireland's ' Celtic Tiger ' economy, Dublin Airport has seen growth in the 1990s and 2000s.

The economy of Egypt flourished during the 1990s and 2000s.

American would later take over Reno Air in 1999, and San Jose was made an American hub until the early 2000s ( and a downturn in the economy ).

England began to recover in the early 2000s and were undefeated in Test matches through the 2004 calendar year.

By the early 2000s ( decade ), however, the university quietly reexamined its position on accreditation as degree mills proliferated and various government bureaucracies, such as law enforcement agencies, began excluding BJU graduates on the grounds that the university did not appear on appropriate federal lists.

Meanwhile, with the advent and popularity of the MP3, sales of CDs began dropping in the 2000s.

Telecom companies, such as Afghan Wireless and Roshan, began boasting rapid increase in cellular phone usage in the mid 2000s.

Traditional cocktails and gin began to make a comeback in the 2000s.

Since the 2000s, guitar amplifiers began having built-in multi-effects units or digital modeling effects.

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, HTTPS began to see widespread use for protecting page authenticity on all types of websites, securing accounts and keeping user communications, identity and web browsing private.

In the late 2000s, Kiribati began to strengthen its relations with Cuba.

In the 2000s, the musical film began to rise in popularity once more, with new works such as Moulin Rouge !, Across the Universe, and Enchanted ; film adaptations of stage shows, such as Chicago, 8 Mile, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Fame, Repo!

In the 1990s and 2000s the personal defense weapon, a compact submachine gun-like firearm which can fire armor-piercing, higher-powered ammunition began to replace the machine pistol as a self-defence side arm for artillery crews, tank crews, and helicopter pilots ( for more details, see the section below on military tactics ).

Search engines began dropping support for metadata provided by the element in 1998, and by the early 2000s, most search engines had veered completely away from reliance on elements.

In the mid-to-late 2000s artists and hackers began to rediscover pen plotters as quirky, customizable output devices.

In the 2000s, ABC began to revitalize the primetime soap opera format with shows such as Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, Ugly Betty, Private Practice and most recently Revenge and Ringer, which they co-produced with CBS for the CW.

Starting in the 2000s ( decade ), genre shows began to offer more prominent female characters.

Beginning in the early 2000s, many ski manufacturers began designing skis and bindings together, creating an integrated binding system.

In the 2000s, Trip-Hop began expanding its influence more prominently into other genres.

A lot of producers began to show their Trip-Hop influence with several albums that came out in the early 2000s.

Extraction of natural gas began in the 2000s.

In the late 2000s, Vanuatu began to strengthen its relations with Cuba.

The 2000s was a decade that began on January 1, 2000 and ended on December 31, 2009.

In December 2009, the World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ) announced that the 2000s may have been the warmest decade since records began in 1850, with four of the five warmest years since 1850 having occurred in this decade.

In the 2000s, the Weiquan movement began in the PRC, seeking to advance citizens ' rights partly by petitioning for enforcement of existing laws, and partly through activism.

With the Diamond Rio player in 1998, the mass market began to eschew physical media in favor of file-based systems, rendering cassette-and disc-based formats obsolete by the end of the 2000s.

ABC Radio began using the SEDAT satellite distribution system in the mid-1980s, switching to Starguide in the early 2000s.