ABSTRACT
Characteristically, these regions have, or produce, few things that business enterprises located in the urban centres cannot obtain on the world market as cheaply or more cheaply: foodstuffs, timber, and minerals. The people who live in these regions are employed principally in primary activities: agriculture, fishing, and forestry; fewer are employed in processing, and fewer yet in services. The carrying capacity of the local economy in terms of the number of people these resources and activities can support is very limited; these are characteristically low value-added and low-return economic activities which support relatively few people.
