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The focus on “structural deficits” should be replaced by a simpler spending rule that is less dependent on the economic cycle.
Of the half that remains at peace, the large majority end up highly dependent on foreign aid – hardly a sustainable model in the context of the global financial crisis.
Countries on the periphery tend to be poorer and more dependent on commodities than the more developed world, and they must repay more than $1.4 trillion in bank loans in 2009 alone.
Some patients who were dependent on ventilators died.
With the rapid development of global value chains, our economies are becoming increasingly dependent on the free flow of data across political borders.
But China’s global future will be as dependent as everyone else’s on One Net – an open, free, dynamic, and secure Internet.
The Danish wind industry is nearly completely dependent on taxpayer subsidies to support a modest workforce.
And, given the growing likelihood of additional trade barriers – as suggested by the US Commerce Department’s recent recommendations of high tariffs on aluminum and steel – the combination of protectionism and ever-widening trade imbalances becomes all the more problematic for a US economy set to become even more dependent on foreign capital.
France, which is around 80% dependent on nuclear energy, and is a big exporter of nuclear-plant technology, initially avoided most of the global anti-nuclear concerns.
This is deeply troubling, for India’s supply of nuclear fuel, technology, and reactors is almost entirely dependent on imports from manufacturers who refuse liability for any malfunction.
Moreover, the US economy’s performance remains overly dependent on the Federal Reserve’s experimental monetary policies, courageously adopted in the absence of adequate measures by other economic policymakers.
China’s leaders may be attempting to shift toward domestic consumption-led growth, but the reality is that the economy remains heavily dependent on exports.
When Germany starts taking the practical steps required to submerge its D-mark in a single European currency, the decision will become irrevocable and France will no longer be dependent on German goodwill.
Lending rates are still too high for small and medium-size enterprises and too dependent on where in the EU a company is located.
If current estimates are correct, around 10% of users (and one in six who start in adolescence) may become dependent on marijuana – that is, find it difficult to control or discontinue their use.
Second, it is making progress in its negotiations with the Palestinians dependent on events in Egypt and elsewhere in the region, such as Iran.
The Thai authorities’ assessment is correct; when developing countries make investments that empower young people to start a family only when they are ready, birth rates fall and the share of the working-age population increases relative to the dependent population.
In North America, the shale-energy revolution in the US, Canada’s oil sands, and the prospect of more onshore and offshore oil production in Mexico (now that its energy sector is open to private and foreign investment) have made the continent less dependent on Middle East supplies.
But if Japan, America’s main ally in the region, were “much more powerful and much less dependent on the United States for its security,” it, too, should not be trusted.
The longer others remain dependent on the US, the less capable they will be of taking care of their own affairs, including their security.
Although these booms were initially financed by domestic capital, they soon became dependent on foreign capital, which flowed into their economies as advanced-country central banks pumped huge amounts of liquidity into financial markets.
But these are, in effect, parallel negotiations, closely dependent on each other for progress.
Large American corporations and banks now roam the globe freely, and are no longer so dependent on the US consumer.
Moreover, Turkey has become increasingly dependent on overseas investors (and probably some wealthy domestic investors, too).
It has become dangerously dependent on economic success, so that any large-scale economic failure will expose the shallowness of its moral claims.
Likewise, the functional features of Chinese entrepreneurship were heavily dependent on cultural values, particularly given a financial and legal system that was often unreliable.
This self-defeating crisis is now over, but can both sides really prevent further deterioration in their complex, mutually dependent relationship?
Given that Europe’s prospects are highly dependent on external factors, any speculation about its future must account for global conditions.
Thus, the country becomes increasingly dependent on exports, first and foremost, on the traditional export of oil and gas.
It is pathologically dependent on the ever-changing political influences the power structures and the political system are subjected to, which is especially obvious prior to a new election cycle.
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