1.   If our political economy remains backward, our intellectual economy has leaped ahead.

2.   The agency also remains backward in its use of technology to look at data.

3.   But the north, partly because of the rebellion, remains backward.

4.   Indonesia has poured in millions of dollars to improve the economy of the province, which had remained backward under colonial rule.

5.   Much of China remains backward and overall progress continues to be retarded due to the lack of a national economy.

6.   Thus its neighbours remain as backward as it wants it to be, taking advantage of it in every possible way.