The phrase "economic scourge" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, you could use it in the sentence: "The economic scourge of the Great Recession caused countless people to lose their jobs."
Oil prices, an economic scourge in decades past, have soared to record levels in recent years.
This is the great economic scourge that John Maynard Keynes identified, and is therefore known as the Keynesian vicious circle.
Like everyone in journalism, I had been focused on the debt ceiling debates, but what I saw in Yamhill was a different economic scourge: unemployment.
Inflation was the economic scourge of the 1970's (it zoomed from about 6percentt in 1970 to more than 14percentt in early 1980).
Inflation, once the economic scourge of the Latin American countries, has fallen from four digits to single digits in some countries.
Given the enormous economic scourge of P. vivax in endemic areas, plasma CNAs levels provide a welcome prognostic tool to rapidly identify potentially severe cases and improve clinical management.
Greater progressivity would reduce rising income inequality, and with it, inequality of opportunity that is both an economic and social scourge.
OLLI REHN, the European Union's top economic policy maker and scourge of debt-fueled budget deficits, is fed up with austerity.
Teachout, then, is poised to test the bromance between the two most powerful men in New York – and specifically test it along the lines of economic justice and the scourge of big money in politics.
Teachout, then, is poised to test the bromance between the two most powerful men in New York and specifically test it along the lines of economic justice and the scourge of big money in politics.
They gave a landslide victory to Portia Simpson Miller, whose People's National Party (PNP) took 42 of the 63 seats.In office since 2007, the conservative JLP had grappled with Jamaica's twin scourges of economic stagnation and violent crime.
