During the 1950s, government-sponsored replanting efforts contributed to a partial revival of the cacao industry, so that by 1958 Ecuador was the world's sixth leading exporter of cacao.

Today, the city's economy relies mostly on trade and tourism with some old industries undergoing partial revival, such as food (fishing, olive, wine production), paper, concrete and chemicals.

A partial revival in attendances was marred by poor weather in 2010.

Though there was a partial revival under the Vijayanagar Empire, Tamil civilization never recovered its past glory.

Then came the economic downturn in the late 1980's and early 1990's, followed by only a partial revival.

In 1946 a gas field was opened nearby and led to a partial revival of the town's economy.

The city's economy has experienced a partial revival in the early 2000s.

Ghazan and his famous Iranian vizier, Rashid al-Din, brought Iran a partial and brief economic revival.

This partial revival was probably due to the somewhat increased influence of the sun, still far, far away.

More than thirty years after the last official Cannonball, the issues raised, and the possibility of a full or partial revival, are still of interest to some motorists.