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Ideally, European countries should build an integrated defense force that would be less
dependent
on the US.
If the Central Asian republics are cut off from the West, they are liable to turn to China in order to avoid becoming totally
dependent
on Russia.
India, for example, is becoming less
dependent
on aid, and eventually will not need it.
Water-intensive food and energy production – among others – are
dependent
on uninterrupted supplies.
As China’s neighbors grow increasingly
dependent
on the Chinese market, the logic suggests, America’s influence in the region will gradually decline.
These concerns require that fiscal exit strategies be planned, announced, and implemented soon, before the stimulus programs become permanently entrenched, develop powerful
dependent
constituencies, and greatly increase the risk of rising interest rates, inflation, and taxation.
Subsistence farming of traditional food grains, fruits, and vegetables is giving way to cash crops and monocultures
dependent
on high-priced inputs that small farmers cannot afford and water that they can’t provide.
From a purely demographic perspective, the advanced economies’ productive capacity has reached a plateau of slightly more than two working-age people per
dependent.
Denmark, a country that in the 1970s was almost entirely
dependent
on energy imports, is now the European Union’s only net energy exporter, often generating more than 100% of its electricity needs from wind power.
But they have the means to forge a new deal that empowers poor communities by making them no longer
dependent
on the FARC.
While this shortfall has narrowed from a peak of 5.8% of GDP in 2006 to 2.4% in 2014, it still leaves the US heavily
dependent
on surplus foreign savings in order to grow.
Further complications would arise from putting the verdict on currency manipulation – presumably
dependent
on some type of “fair value” metric – in the hands of politicians.
Though the EU as a whole maintains a balanced energy mix, with supply divided relatively evenly among gas, coal, oil, renewables, and nuclear generation, individual countries are often excessively
dependent
on a single source and, more dangerously, a single supplier: Russia.
With greater centralization of powers, Ottoman rulers became uncomfortably
dependent
on notables at home and imperial powers in Europe.
But the US has also become heavily
dependent
on China, which is now America’s third largest and fastest-growing export market.
Finally, the chaos in Libya has shown how
dependent
the rest of the world is on the political fate of Middle Eastern societies.
Emerging economies that are overly
dependent
on global capital flows – particularly India, Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa, and Turkey – are finding it tougher to finance economic growth.
It also became
dependent
on China’s savings surplus to finance its own savings shortfall (the world’s largest), and took advantage of China’s voracious demand for US Treasury securities to help fund massive budget deficits and subsidize low domestic interest rates.
As Austria-Hungary discovered, once geopolitical dependency starts, the dominant power will seek to use the
dependent
ally as an extension of its own interests rather than see it regain freedom of maneuver.
Whenever the government does address basic public welfare issues, its efforts merely produce
dependent
individuals who submit to the will of a self-selected group of leaders who are "elected" from time-to-time by fake elections.
The country remains
dependent
on natural-resource-based exports: beef, sugar, coffee, and a bit of mining.
And, given Trump’s inexperience, he will be all the more
dependent
on his advisers, just as former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush were.
Once Yeltsin was out of the way, Putin was
dependent
on no other figure; he was master of the Kremlin, the ultimate arbiter of disputes among the rival figures and clans of the post-Soviet Russian elite.
Supporting further real-estate investment would make the sector’s value even more
dependent
on government policies, ensuring that future policymakers face greater political pressure from interests groups like real-estate developers and bonds holders.
For example, Europe has made little progress in formulating a common energy policy, leaving it increasingly
dependent
on Russia, which has not hesitated to exploit its bargaining position.
But Asia cannot be complacent: financial systems remain fragile; economies are burdened with high fiscal and current-account deficits; and Asia remains too heavily
dependent
on North American and European export markets, increasing its vulnerability to external shocks.
Finally, as a country that does not export vital natural resources and is
dependent
on substantial commodity imports, India needs an open, competitive, vibrant system of international trade and finance.
Denmark’s wind industry is almost completely
dependent
on taxpayer subsidies, and Danes pay the highest electricity rates of any industrialized nation.
They are also
dependent
on large quantities of wholesale debt – totaling €4.9 trillion (27% of total eurozone loans), with €660 billion maturing in the next two years – to fund low-yielding assets.
What is needed is a controlled deleveraging that recognizes that banks’ balance sheets have become too large to support, and that business models
dependent
on massive leverage are obsolete.
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