"economically troubled" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about difficulties that a country, region, organization, or industry is experiencing due to financial or economic issues. For example: "The region has been economically troubled for the past decade."
It is internationally isolated and economically troubled.
Oil-dependent countries, writes the Stanford professor Terry Karl, "eventually become among the most economically troubled, the most authoritarian, and the most conflict-ridden in the world".
But she maintained that economically troubled countries needed to continue paring their debt and deficits to prevent the crisis from spreading.
Mr Cheney will visit Turkey, a NATO member whose prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, has described American threats against Iraq as a "nightmare" for his economically troubled country.
With the support of a regional initiative and the Blackstone Foundation, Launch Pad has spawned counterparts at Wayne State and Walsh College in economically troubled southeast Michigan.
To be sure, North Korea is an isolated place, the last Stalinist state and so economically troubled that people flee to China for a better life.
Instead of a serious debate about trade, Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton have engaged in a depressing fit of pandering to voters in economically troubled Ohio.
Dmitri V. Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, said he believed that Mr. Putin was aware of the high costs of a war to take control of economically troubled Ukraine.
A Big Waste THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF) is asking U.S. taxpayers to provide it with $3.5 billion in emergency aid and a further $15 billion in loan guarantees to underwrite IMF lending activities to economically troubled nations.
Finally, economically troubled Africa has a ready supply of young men with no jobs and little to lose.
