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True, trade makes any country in the age of globalization, whatever its political ideology, more
dependent
on all the players in the world wide marketplace.
Yes, Russia remains too
dependent
on oil and gas, and should move further on transparency, openness, and competition in business and governance.
Never before has politics been so
dependent
on the moment, on the fleeting moods of public or media.
But when the ultimate determinants of values today become so
dependent
on a distant future that we cannot see clearly, we may not be able to think clearly, either.
Similarly, while public financing of pensions and welfare programs is
dependent
on taxing labor, much of the region currently suffers from high rates of unemployment; in the Western Balkans, there are nearly no jobs, or none at all.
After the US trade embargo was imposed in 1960, Cuba became heavily
dependent
on the Soviet Union for economic support.
The broader lesson should be clear: when a natural hazard wreaks havoc on a power grid, there is a high potential for cascading impacts on
dependent
systems, such as banking and finance, government services, transport and communications, and drinking water.
Beyond the bilateral benefits, the rest of the global economy is
dependent
on Chinese and US leadership – both in terms of growth and in matters concerning global economic governance and coordination.
The ocean’s health is now largely
dependent
upon lowering CO2 emissions within the next few decades, before runaway ocean acidification occurs and sea levels change radically.
If economic growth is seen as being
dependent
on the cost competitiveness of exports, governments will focus on things that might make sense for exporters, but not for their economies as a whole, such as labor-market policies aimed at artificially holding down wage growth, which redistributes income from labor to capital and exacerbates inequality.
Modern international diplomacy is more and more
dependent
on groups that make rules, set standards, and collect technical data.
Emerging economies, following the advanced countries, also attached less importance to Fund surveillance, especially as their accumulation of external assets made them less
dependent
on IMF financing and advice.
Indeed, the continued failure of smaller countries like Greece and Cyprus to fulfill their commitments reinforces the impression that they will forever be
dependent
on financial assistance.
The statistics say that 80% of Gaza’s population is
dependent
on UN food aid.
Many are in formerly powerful research centers now wasting away, some form entire populations in once closed research cities and one institute towns that were wholly
dependent
on a single defence institute or project.
The result is that a mother with
dependent
children must patch together an unstable and unreliable network of caregivers in ways that sharply hamper her ability to succeed at her job and climb out of poverty.
Across the Atlantic, the Fed is set to complete its exit from quantitative easing (QE) – its policy of large-scale asset purchases – in the next few weeks, leaving it completely
dependent
on interest rates and forward policy guidance to boost the economy.
But EU-wide measures aimed at ensuring discipline are necessary to spur the growth of preventive mechanisms in the member states, and such initiatives are largely
dependent
on the large countries, which thus bear a special responsibility for the developments within the eurozone – and within the EU.
Ironically, in the coming era of negative saving, the US will find itself increasingly
dependent
on surplus saving from abroad.
For starters, China remains
dependent
on foreign technology, with half of its technology imports coming from just three countries – the US (27%), Japan (17%), and Germany (11%) – between 2011 and 2016.
The tradable sector is expanding and is not
dependent
on leverage to generate aggregate demand.
The beneficial effect on the risk-return options available to investors/savers (including pension funds) will outweigh the higher cost of debt; indeed, an important subset of growth engines in the tradable sector is not
dependent
on low-cost debt.
But the OMT program is
dependent
on German support.
By creating a system that is heavily
dependent
on highly rated government bonds, which are deposited at the European Central Bank in exchange for liquidity, Europe has given banks – particularly larger institutions – no choice but to purchase such bonds.
But while Jane Goodall was describing female chimpanzees and their
dependent
offspring as the only socially bonded units in the primate world, a Japanese team, working only 130 kilometers away, eventually proved that chimpanzees live in large communities with stable memberships.
For example, though Libya’s economy is almost entirely
dependent
on Western expertise and markets to produce and consume its oil, former leader Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi pursued a virulently anti-Western foreign policy.
Where does India, which remains
dependent
on Middle Eastern energy, stand on that region’s many crises?
Poor and erratic rains have left 2.5 million people facing an ongoing food crisis; some 400,000 children live with acute malnutrition; food prices are rising; and dry wells have left communities
dependent
on expensive trucked water.
They buttress their argument with empirical work that suggests that growth in developing countries has become progressively more
dependent
on China’s economic performance.
A decade ago, the US seemed hopelessly
dependent
on imported energy.
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