The phrase "lagging regions" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to areas, communities, or economies that are behind or not keeping pace with others in terms of development, progress, or growth. Example: The government has launched a new initiative to support and develop lagging regions in the country, in order to reduce the economic gap between different areas.
But one way to think of Trumpism is as an attempt to narrow regional disparities, not by bringing the lagging regions up, but by cutting the growing regions down.
The ways in which this 'new agriculture' relates to rural development in lagging regions sound fine in theory.
He pioneered in focusing on the tricky problems of designing new cities to open up lagging regions or channel urban growth.
Over the next 3 years, each of the 10 countries will receive handsome sums from the E.U.'s so-called structural funds, which aim to boost development in lagging regions.
There is thus a case for policies pursuing the elevation of growth and poverty reduction in lagging regions.
If high economic growth in the metropolitan centers of Europe continues, the result may be greater movement of job seekers from lagging regions of Europe into the already affluent regions.
Second, we show that increasing the rate at which the lagging region copies the technology for producing knowledge goods narrows the income and welfare gap between the leading and the lagging regions.
Finally, we note that an increase in the rate at which the lagging region copies the technology for producing knowledge goods may make the leading region worse off.
The focus of the present paper is on the development of a methodological framework for guiding strategic decision-making towards the sustainable future development of peripheral small island regions, constituting distinct examples of lagging behind regions at a European scale.
Consistent with our hypotheses, parametric fMRI analyses linked shorter lags to activations in regions previously associated with recollection (left prefrontal, parahippocampal, precuneus, and visual cortices), and longer lags with regions previously associated with familiarity (right prefrontal cortex).
Still, the state's commitment to the area, both in dollars and in rhetoric, has lagged other regions.
