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The sustainable future we want depends on ending this indifference.
Pessimists will claim that behaviors are hard to change, especially when doing so depends on explaining the science of germs to uneducated audiences.
They try to report the world as it is, but theirs is not the world of most people – their business depends on the disruption of “ordinary” business, so they systematically underestimate people’s desire for law and order (or at least order).
Kenya, for example, depends on heavy fuel oil and diesel for 21% of its electricity; the comparable figure in Senegal is a whopping 85%; and some island states use imported diesel for all of their electricity needs.
The future of Europe and the euro now depends on whether the eurozone’s political leaders can combine a modicum of economic understanding with a visionary sense of, and concern for, European solidarity.
For China, which to some extent still depends on external markets to drive economic growth, this environment is particularly challenging – especially as currency depreciation in Europe and Japan erode export demand further.
Normative taboos may also become relevant in the cyber realm, though here the difference between a weapon and a non-weapon depends on intent, and it would be difficult to forbid – and impossible to prohibit reliably – the design, possession, or even implantation for espionage of particular computer programs.
European-style multilateralism depends on constantly tweaking existing arrangements, which makes it the opposite of Trump-style unilateralism.
If Europe conveys the impression that its friendship with America depends on who wins the US presidential elections, it is likely to freeze the transatlantic relationship for years.
In Europe, by contrast, the fate of all banks depends upon their home governments.
Whether policies sound crazy or sensible depends on the conceptual paradigm, or belief system, that we use to interpret the nature of the world we inhabit.
But hard-liners within May’s Conservative Party, and Democratic Unionist MPs from Northern Ireland, on whom May depends for her parliamentary majority, will accept only a backstop with a time limit, which is no real “stop” at all.
The OMT scheme’s success depends on an unlimited capacity to intervene – to do “whatever it takes,” as Draghi famously put it.
Long-term productivity growth, however, depends on educational improvements, adequate provision of public goods and infrastructure, and a healthy business environment that stimulates entrepreneurship and innovation.
None of this is good for the economy on which Turkey’s middle class – and, in turn, the AKP’s electoral success – depends.
As any football pundit will tell you, success depends on teamwork.
Beyond the obvious risks associated with instability, there is the fact that Ukraine depends on Russia not only for most of the fuel to run its aging reactors, but also for the treatment and storage of most of its spent fuel.
First, global economic progress depends on high global saving and investment.
Third, full employment depends on high investment rates that match high saving rates.
Progress depends on a high rate of global investment: building the skills, technology, and physical capital stock to propel standards of living higher.
Syriza was forced to accept tough choices because Greece depends on external financial assistance.
But Bitcoin’s success, which remains highly uncertain, ultimately depends on it attaining sufficient stability to perform the most essential function of any currency (as opposed to a speculative commodity) – that of providing a relatively predictable medium of exchange.
How much safer, however, depends upon the returns on the pool of bonds that compose the CDO.
But the value of the guarantees depends on the situation.
It is hard to believe in an Asia Century when Asia’s security depends on non-Asian security forces.
When China buys US Treasury bills, who depends on whom?
Because the Saudi capital market’s credibility depends on the credibility of the Saudi Aramco listing, it is critical that Saudi Arabia holds Saudi Aramco to domestic governance standards.
Machiavelli also stressed the importance of the hard power of coercion and payment when a leader faces a tradeoff with the soft power of attraction, “since being loved depends upon his subjects, while his being feared depends upon himself.”
The outcome depends on confidence.
The quality of the assets backing the bonds depends solely on issuers’ goodwill and technical skills.
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