Malmo had long been a depressed area, but is now the fastest-expanding city in the country.

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Its current civic ambition is to be officially declared a depressed area.

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"We're in a depressed area, " says Leighty.

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In the wake of that controversy, the former president said he chose the New York neighborhood of Harlem because he wanted to be part of the federal empowerment zone -- which provides federal aid for an economically depressed area -- he helped to create.

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In fact, the committee said, new roads might actually drain economic activity from a depressed remote area.

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He found that, even a decade after the accident, many people in the area are depressed and traumatised, with high rates of alcoholism and other social ills.

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The area is heavily agricultural and economically depressed.

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When I first visited in the 1990s, some of the worst fighting had been around Gospic, an area in Lika where the economy was badly depressed following the war.

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This positive result in reviving depressed local economies has been repeated many times around the world by introducing such cooperative, complementary currencies in the area.

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