Reliance
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Decommissioning nuclear reactors may make us feel safer, but we should acknowledge that this will often mean compensating for the lost output with more
reliance
on coal, meaning more emissions that contribute to global warming, and more deaths, both from coal extraction and air pollution.
Until we can find a feasible alternative, reducing
reliance
on one of them means that another must take its place.
Australia is among the world’s highest per capita emitters of CO2, owing to its
reliance
on coal – the most carbon-intensive fuel.
The goal is to lower public costs by reducing
reliance
on expensive acute-care hospitals, minimizing the number of emergency-room visits, and avoiding jail sentences.
The fear is that policies will fail to pivot away from excessive
reliance
on central banks, and end up looking back to the new normal, with all of its limitations and frustrations, as a period of relative calm and wellbeing.
Indeed, an attack would most likely increase America’s
reliance
on unsavory Islamist rulers in countries ranging from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
Likewise, for both our countries, greater energy efficiency and security requires
reliance
upon market price signals, technology, innovation, and diversified energy sources.
Second, greater
reliance
on services allows China to settle into a lower and more sustainable growth trajectory, tempering the excessive resource- and pollution-intensive activities driven by the hyper-growth of manufacturing and construction.
It typically means, as DeBakey experienced and as his physicians anticipated, an extended hospitalization marked by
reliance
on machines, multiple complications, and considerable suffering.
Indeed, over the last seven years, China’s
reliance
on bank-based capital allocation has led to the same mistakes that caused the 2008 financial crisis in the advanced economies.
Far from a world of optimal policy, central bankers have been forced into prolonged
reliance
on imperfect approaches.
Such a new platform should also be used to work towards structural reform of the international monetary system aimed at reducing its excessive
reliance
on the US dollar as a reserve currency.
As China’s
reliance
on Middle East energy resources grows – 90% of the region’s oil exports will go to Asia by 2035 – the need to deepen engagement with oil-producing states will become more acute.
A third trend is growing
reliance
on the use of force, particularly on the part of the secret police, in political life.
In a new book, Confront and Conceal, David Sanger describes what he calls an “Obama Doctrine” (though he faults the president for not communicating it more clearly): a lighter military footprint, combined with a willingness to use force unilaterally when American security interests are directly involved;
reliance
on coalitions to deal with global problems that do not directly threaten US security; and “a rebalancing away from the Middle East quagmires toward the continent of greatest promise in the future – Asia.”
The world's
reliance
on the US as the one source of growth in global demand buttresses America's currency power play, but at the cost of aggravating vast global imbalances.
It might also help push the rest of the world into moving away from its
reliance
on America as the sole engine of growth.
With respect to climate change, however, the effects of greater
reliance
on shale gas are mixed.
But
reliance
on foreign workers could run into structural problems down the road.
Dubai’s
reliance
on foreign labor thus threatens its long-term economic capacity to withstand future shocks.
And yet, given that the non-tradable sector is constrained by its
reliance
on domestic demand, recovery – if it comes – will depend on the tradable sector’s growth potential.
China’s government has encouraged and then exploited states’ economic
reliance
on it to compel their support for its foreign-policy objectives.
The alternative – exclusive
reliance
on a bailout – is tempting, as it may temporarily calm markets.
Belarus’s
reliance
on cheap energy supplies from Russia could also be used as leverage.
That fact calls for reducing US military
reliance
on access to Turkish bases.
Unfortunately, the new Basel III Accord and the ensuing EU Capital Requirements Directive have failed to correct the two main shortcomings of international prudential rules – namely, their
reliance
on banks’ risk-management models for the calculation of capital requirements, and the lack of supervisory accountability.
The geopolitical danger arises from Putin’s growing
reliance
on military action abroad – in Ukraine and now in Syria – to maintain his popularity at home, using the domestic media (now almost entirely under Kremlin control) to extol Russia’s global importance.
China’s initial globalization “dividend,” accrued through low factor costs, is rapidly diminishing, and a new era – characterized by
reliance
on the massive domestic market to absorb foreign high-level factors of production, such as technology and human capital – is just beginning.
But
reliance
on realpolitik as the guiding light of foreign policy has a pretty shabby track record.
After all, huge US foreign borrowing was clearly a key factor in creating the recent financial mess, while China’s excessive
reliance
on export-driven growth has made it extraordinarily vulnerable to a sudden drop in global demand.
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