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What to do about it depends on how we characterize the problem.
Genuine progress depends on Chinese leaders’ willingness to address the structural flaws – namely, the restrictions on domestic private capital – that are impeding the financial system’s ability to channel savings to the most promising economic sectors.
First, China’s growth model is distorted, as it emphasizes investment over employment growth and depends partly on wage suppression to subsidize production and exports.
Arms control depends on transparency.
Indeed, the future of the world depends on it.
But "stick and carrot" diplomacy depends both on the use of the stick and on the availability of carrots.
For thinkers and politicians that follow the road of the American philosopher John Rawls, democracy consists of and depends upon procedural justice.
As with any tax and subsidy, the net effect depends on whether those taxed cut back spending less than those subsidized.
Both disregard the fact that rationality depends as much on individuals’ imperfect understandings of history and society as on their motivation.
On the contrary, given the increase in its Roma population, Europe’s long-term prosperity depends on reversing current trends – and getting started right away.
For example, while it would be tempting for a leader confronting ecological or nuclear disaster to devote less attention to domestic social issues, effective global cooperation depends on strong individual states.
Of course, the process of accession depends on the readiness of the adhering countries, but it should not be halted or slowed down.
The final critical element of an effective industrial strategy is the institutional framework on which it depends.
The same thing is true of international arrangements and institutions, whose survival depends on the willingness to defend them.
Typically, ministers fight jealously over these spoils, as their ability to leave a mark in their respective fields often depends on it.
The amount of resources that the back end gets depends on the demand for services identified at the front end.
For all the attention that India’s retail revolution, information technology prowess, and booming manufacturing sectors have garnered in recent years, agriculture, on which 70% of the population still directly depends, is in crisis.
A great deal of innocent human life depends on it.
The test of any alternative financial system depends ultimately on whether it is – or can be – more efficient, ethical, stable, and adaptable than the prevailing system.
For most equity investors, the value of any project depends to a large extent on effective post-investment management.
And it depends on three forms of knowledge: embedded knowledge in tools; codified knowledge in recipes, manuals, and protocols; and tacit knowledge, or knowhow, in brains.
Uber depends on the previous diffusion of cell phones, cars, and credit cards.
Finally, diffusion depends on whether countries can afford to purchase the new technology.
And that, in turn, depends on whether it facilitates or complicates their search for goods and services that they can sell internationally.
Failure to do so would not only create hardship for the millions of unemployed, but would also threaten political stability, which depends on the expectation of continuing economic prosperity.
Legal uncertainty aside, whether the ECB’s decision to pursue QE can be justified ultimately depends on its impact.
Likewise, the ten MPs of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Union Party, on whose support the government now depends, are torn between wanting free trade with the South and fear of being sucked into the Irish Republic if and when the rest of Britain leaves the customs union.
The answer depends on the shape of the US recession: if it is short and shallow, sufficient growth elsewhere will ensure only a slight global slowdown.
What a thing costs depends not on the amount of time and effort spent producing it, but on what it is worth to the buyer.
The availability of food, water, and energy – fundamental building blocks of every country’s security – depends on healthy, robust, and diverse ecosystems, and on the life that inhabits them.
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