A region of high unemployment and poverty.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the past few years we've gotten a good national consensus on moving to a market-based approach to reviving distressed areas.
- Some of the towns have become distressed areas and focal points of frustration and bitterness.
- The fund is also directing investments into economically distressed areas.
- The city has dedicated small amounts of money to distressed areas, but there hasn't been a capital injection by the private sector.
- Promote and leverage investment in economically distressed areas.
- Charleroi is surrounded by the Belgian gold mining area in Flanders and it's a very economically distressed area.
- Better yet, if you're in an economically distressed area, you're not alone.