Nearly 32% of Metro Miami's growth in 2011 was foreign-born, and more than half went on to become US citizens. While South Florida's population has been fairly stagnant for a decade, it's starting an unexpected shift upward, with Miami-Dade's population growing 2.1% in one year.
economy. 1  thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc. 2  an act or means of thrifty saving; a saving: He achieved a small economy by walking to work instead of taking a bus. 3  the management of the resources of a community, country, etc., especially with a view to its productivity.
A given economy is the result of a set of processes that involves its culture, values, education, technological evolution, history, social organization, political structure and legal systems, as well as its geography, natural resource endowment, and ecology, as main factors.