The phrase "lagging areas" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to regions or places that are considered behind or slow in development, progress, or improvement. Example: The government is investing in infrastructure projects to support economic growth and development in lagging areas of the country.
Even within regions and countries that have broadly reduced hunger to low levels, lagging areas are leaving millions still hungry, and demonstrate the need to target solutions to communities facing the greatest need.
It does so by simulating, via GIS, the impacts on accessibility (policy target) under three alternative infrastructure improvement scenarios.25 Their results indicate that improvements in more congested areas tended to have superior network-wide cost savings across Egypt when compared to those improvements connecting to "lagging" areas.
Well performing areas often tend to be included in clusters composed of traditional private businesses, whilst lagging areas tend to be part of clusters in which the public sector is responsible for employment, this is particularly so in the sparsely populated areas of North Sweden.
The one thing that Hu did that made sense was show concern for income gaps in China and the lagging areas in the west.
The two lagging areas among the 15-year development goals that United Nations member states agreed to in 2000 are efforts to drastically cut the deaths of both young children and mothers in childbirth.
The aim of the EU Structural Funds is to increase long-term sustainable growth of the lagging areas.
You're going to see some of the lagged areas, in terms of the financials, or the economics of the local areas with, you know, New York being a perfect example, kind of the last to fall.
The lagged area changes are included for the middle and late rice area in China.
In some models, the lagged area is included while it is excluded in others.
In general, the lagged area should only be included if it increases the explanatory power of the model.
The introduction of area payment (indicator 10) seems to have had a positive effect in Poland (area payments introduced in 1999) and to some extent in Estonia and Latvia (area payments introduced in 2000 and 2001 respectively) whereas for Lithuania there is a ten year lag (area payments introduced in 1993).
