Despite the economic slump, it is worth taking the chance now, before Russia and China lock the Caspian countries in the Sino-Russian "co-prosperity zone".
As Anna Marlis Burgard says in her introduction to the graphic novels, "America, between the 1950s and early 1960s, was itself a sort of 'twilight zone'" — prosperity glossing over social injustice and the threat of war.
Under her leadership, Germany has been an oasis of relative prosperity in the slumping euro zone, and voters rewarded her for it.
Dudaeva praised the peace that had fallen upon Chechnya since: "Now, thank goodness, Chechnya has become a zone of peace, prosperity, social-economic development.
Yet North Korean leaders refused to embrace reform, fearful that any opening to the wider world would invite rebellion by enabling their people to see the enormous gap between their deprivation and the fantastic prosperity south of the demilitarized zone.
The EU's enlargement to include ten new member countries, which took place last May, was sold as a golden opportunity to expand a European zone of peace, prosperity and co-operation into the former Soviet block.
In its current form, under the influence of the dominant social forces, the European construction may have produced some degree of institutional harmonisation, and generalised some fundamental rights, which is not negligible, but, contrary to the stated goals, it has not produced a convergent evolution of national economies, a zone of shared prosperity.
In my life zone of relative prosperity, I don't usually think about food stamps or poor people.
The idea is basically that if you slash taxes for business and individuals in a designated "zone," jobs and prosperity will follow.
But Parag Khanna's assertion that these zones will create prosperity while bypassing national governments is doubtful.
Failure to do so, said Bergkamp, would condemn the cities of the future to disease and poverty – "if we don't make them into viable, thriving areas of growth and economic prosperity, they basically become disaster zones in terms of human disaster and wasted opportunity".
