'economic backwardness' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a country or area's lack of economic development and resources. For example: "In some areas, economic backwardness has been a major problem for many years."
ECONOMIC backwardness has its advantages.
That challenge is poverty and economic backwardness".
Monarchs were blamed for social injustice, political corruption, and economic backwardness, and they were consequently overthrown.
Where it lapsed, in southern slaveholding colonies, a long period of economic backwardness resulted.
So what should the nations of Europe do now that the advantages of their "economic backwardness" have been fully exploited?
Or the economic backwardness that leaves so many young Arab men without a job and a future?
China's leaders also know how much their power over international affairs remains constrained by China's relative backwardness, economic and military.
But he said the book he considered "most solid" is "Capitalism and Slavery in Southern Brazil," an examination of how racially based servitude contributed directly to Brazil's economic and social backwardness.
The bumiputera equity requirement was part of a policy directive introduced in 1971 by Mr Najib's father, Abdul Razak, Malaysia's second prime minister, and was intended to reduce the economic and social backwardness of the Malay majority.
For the absolute rulers of the GCC, given their suspicion of Iranian intentions, economic failure and backwardness in Iran and Iraq may be more important goal than OPEC cohesion.
But having said that, we should evaluate the quality of this backwardness: economic, political and social.
