Dependence
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And, as the recent impasse in the US demonstrates, political minorities with effective veto power can abuse statutory ceilings in an economic downturn, when
dependence
on external debt finance increases.
First, the production chain must shift from export
dependence
toward domestic consumption.
But the current emphasis on nuclear power must be objectively reassessed, and
dependence
on it thereafter reduced.
This recognition of mutual
dependence
on a valuable resource outside their territory aligns the interests of the three main ethnic groups.
After all, the DPJ came to power on a promise to balance Japan’s
dependence
on the US with closer ties with the People’s Republic.
Thus, an unexpected window of opportunity has opened for the Kurds to achieve full independence, though their
dependence
on good relations with both Turkey and Iran for access to global markets will moderate their political ambitions.
The first problem is China’s enduring
dependence
on exports.
After 35 years of
dependence
on such arrangements, China must embrace the rule of law and establish a reliable, independent judicial system capable of facilitating the liberalization of the services sector, protecting intellectual-property rights, and underpinning a competitive market-based system.
In fact, a consensus already appears to be emerging concerning the need to reduce China’s
dependence
on exports, expand trade in services, attract more foreign investment to its services sector, and accelerate the liberalization of exchange rates, interest rates, and cross-border capital flows – exemplified in the establishment of the Shanghai Pilot Free-Trade Zone last year.
That
dependence
is analogous to the way in which money from emerging economies, mostly in Asia, flowed into the US in the 2000’s, when an apparent economic miracle was based on China’s willingness to lend.
Both lessons – about the slowness and painfulness of bank reconstruction, and about
dependence
on a large external provider of capital – are unpalatable.
Neo-conservatives, for their part, see the European malaise as a form of typical Old World decadence, a collective state of nihilism bred by welfare states and soft
dependence
on hard American power.
This same short-term thinking characterizes the world’s
dependence
on fossil fuels.
We cannot break that
dependence
overnight.
Fifty years of defense
dependence
on the US has created a powerful “peace industry” in Europe whose primary business is to fight defense spending tooth and nail.
He mentions the 1932 default on its World War I debt owed to the United States, the debts accumulated after World War II, and the UK’s “serial
dependence
on International Monetary Fund bailouts from the mid-1950’s until the mid-1970’s.”
As for the UK’s “serial dependence” on the IMF from the mid-1950’s to the mid-1970’s, there were actually only two episodes: the 1956 bailout during the Suez crisis and the 1976 bailout that preceded the winter of discontent when strikes in many essential industries – even the dead went unburied – practically brought the country to its knees.
The Kazakhs are keen to sell their oil and gas to the West at the very moment that the European Union is anxious to shed its
dependence
on Russian supplies.
When a new government came to power in Japan in 2009 and tried to break the postwar mold by initiating better relations with China and seeking to reduce its
dependence
on the US, the Obama administration sought to undermine this effort.
But President Barack Obama and his congressional allies have rejected the consensus that government should be only a last resort for those in need, in favor of greater dependence, for both individuals and firms, on entitlement programs and other public spending, targeted tax breaks, regulations, and loans.
As a result, North Korea has begun to enter the international system and its
dependence
on South Korea, the US, China and other donors has deepened.
They will also try to lower Japan’s
dependence
on exports and rethink sending production facilities to lower-wage countries.
Commodity dependence, even with the creation of considerable domestic value added, remains high.
This policy has the effect of rendering fossil fuels economically uncompetitive – and creating incentives to use Costa Rica’s nearly 100% renewable power in the transportation sector to cut our
dependence
on oil.
There is a large amount of scholarly evidence linking
dependence
on natural resources with poor governance – the “resource curse.”
In fact, the US economy has increased its
dependence
on international trade.
Likewise, every American president since Richard Nixon in the early 1970’s has tried, and failed, to reduce
dependence
on foreign oil.
Above all, nobody can wish for Ukraine to follow in Belorussia's sorry steps or to be torn between nostalgia for the West and
dependence
upon the East.
Those companies will presumably settle their claims in euros, not dollars, freeing them from
dependence
on US banks.
Having learned a painful lesson about
dependence
on the dollar, will other countries move away from it more generally?
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