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American defense contractors are
dependent
on the billions the Kingdom spends on military hardware.
After all, for three decades prior to the crisis, developing countries were told to liberalize, and to pursue export-oriented policies, leaving them structurally
dependent
on advanced-country demand, which remains weak.
When an economy is so
dependent
on trade, it becomes much easier to make the case for liberalization, which is why Europe has long been more enthusiastic than the US about a transatlantic free-trade agreement.
Before too long, Russia’s “managed” (read: authoritarian) modernization will also have to allow for the rule of law and a functioning separation of powers, or the country will remain
dependent
on oil and gas prices and mired in a brutal struggle for power, influence, and money.
Thus, the neurocognitive effects documented for non-konzo children in konzo-affected households and communities make it all the more important to ensure food safety in regions
dependent
on bitter varieties of cassava with high levels of cyanogenic compounds.
That is why former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who made social investment in Arab communities a national priority, resisted making the passage of the Oslo Accords
dependent
on Arab parliamentary support.
By contrast, other countries undergoing radical change, including Egypt and Tunisia, are more
dependent
on the service sector, including the always-finicky tourism industry.
This made investment, which is always a bet on the future,
dependent
on fluctuating states of confidence.
At least for the foreseeable future, however, this status is highly
dependent
upon India’s relationship with the US.
And Trump is right about one thing, even if he expresses it crudely: Europe, as well as Japan, has become too
dependent
on American military power.
First, Americans are much less
dependent
than others on world markets, owing to the sheer size of their own.
That is all the more true for the emerging economies, which have become highly
dependent
on their neighbors.
These countries will remain
dependent
on oil imports from an increasingly unstable Persian Gulf.
Economic growth became
dependent
on a steady flow of foreign capital to finance domestic consumption and flashy investments in housing, roads, bridges, and airports.
Instead, they have pursued a cooperative approach to reform of the international monetary system, which they argue should not be
dependent
on any one currency.
Homegrown Energy Security for EuropeCOPENHAGEN – The European Union is highly
dependent
on foreign oil.
But 13 of the latter are either
dependent
on oil exports (Angola, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, and Sudan), or mineral exports (Botswana, Ghana, Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Tanzania).
Although Ostpolitik could not change the East German regime’s nature, it did make East Germany heavily
dependent
on West Germany, and gave Kohl significant political leverage during the reunification process.
If they had, North Korea might have become more
dependent
on South Korea than on China, in which case US and South Korean leaders would not have to plead constantly with China to rein in the North Korean regime.
However, in cases where buyers and sellers are not equally
dependent
upon the relationship, the greater vulnerability of the more
dependent
party can be used as a source of coercive power by the less
dependent
party.
Russia thought it was less
dependent
than Ukraine, and decided to exercise that power.
Even if governments rethink their ban on new nuclear plants, accelerate development of windmills and solar panels, and search for new gas supplies, Europe will remain
dependent
on Russian gas for more than a decade.
In the end, the next decade will be marked by a delicate balance in which Europe remains
dependent
on Russian gas, but Russia’s need for export revenues will also make it
dependent
on Europe.
That leaves these countries
dependent
on the US for both information and capabilities.
To do so, executive payoffs could be made
dependent
on changes in the value of the banks’ credit-default swaps, which reflect the probability that the bank will not have sufficient capital to meet its full obligations.
This will not be easy or quick, but it beats having corrosively high levels of inequality of opportunity, as well as a large segment of the population
dependent
on transfers.
Thirty years ago, Indonesia and Nigeria - both
dependent
on oil - had comparable per capita incomes.
India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, argued that unlike religion – which tends to produce “intolerance, credulity and superstition, emotionalism and irrationalism” and “a temper of a dependent, unfree person” – a scientific temper “is the temper of a free man.”
Psychiatry remains
dependent
on interpretation of detailed case histories.
This renders them
dependent
on interest rate hikes to attract – via the market and on swap lines from the ECB – the euro liquidity that their banks desperately need.
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