Moreover, it would boost food supplies and reduce Afghanistan s exorbitant dependence on imports.

Nabucco would reach Europe via Turkey and would drastically reduce Caspian supplier countries dependence on Russia s pipelines, and the new southeastern EU members dependence on Russian gas supplies.

Within the Turkish government, this opening is viewed as an immense opportunity to reduce Turkey s heavy dependence on energy imports.

The links now being developed in Myanmar will reduce China s dependence on the Strait of Malacca by more than one third.

Direct and indirect measures to reduce dependence on commodity exports and to reduce the impact of commodity price instability are thus crucial if Africa is to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

Such reforms should appeal to rich and poor countries alike, as they would reduce spending on energy and dependence on oil imports.

Likewise, every American president since Richard Nixon in the early 1970 s has tried, and failed, to reduce dependence on foreign oil.

Rising average incomes should lead to increases in domestic savings, which should help to gradually reduce dependence on external concessionary aid flows.

Indeed, the government has emphasized that Brazil will be even more insulated as efforts to cut spending reduce dependence on external capital flows.

The only solution to this problem is for Europeans to reduce their dependence on the US and take greater responsibility for their own defense.

Beginning in 2006, the country began mixing unleaded petrol with 10 ethanol, produced in country at two plants, to reduce dependence on imported fuel.

In that way, we can make investment and social spending sustainable in the medium and long term and thereby reduce our dependence on external resources.

Governments should be encouraged to adopt measures to reduce their countries' dependence on fossil fuels through conservation and encouraging the use of alternative energy sources.

The self reliance of refugees is a vital means to reduce dependence on humanitarian assistance and to prepare refugees for durable solutions, particularly in protracted refugee situations.

To reduce their dependence on commodities they also have signed free trade agreements with the US (inexplicably not approved by the US Congress in the case of Colombia).

Recognizing the need in emergency situations to ensure the smooth transition from relief to rehabilitation and development so as to reduce dependence on external food aid and other relief services,

We must also reduce our dependence on gas altogether by increasing energy efficiency, and by investing in carbon capture and storage technology for coal, and in renewable resources and nuclear power.

UNODC will continue also to develop programmes to improve national and subregional capacity in alternative livelihoods to reduce dependence on opium and to assist Governments in implementing national growth and poverty eradication strategies.

The three major factors that LLDCs are dependent on their transit neighbours are dependence on transit infrastructure, dependence on political relations with neighbours, and dependence on internal peace and stability within transit neighbours.

Of course, curbing future debt accumulation is also vital to China s long term prosperity. That is why China must reduce local governments dependence on banks to meet their financing needs, by nurturing bond and equity markets.

Sugar was the primary export from the 1940s on, but rising production costs, low world market prices, and the government's efforts to reduce dependence on it have led to a growing diversification of the agricultural sector.

Reviving conservation, management, and distribution efforts could reduce water consumption and increase efficiency, but these measures need to be combined with radical reforms to speed the transition away from oil dependence to a zero carbon renewable energy infrastructure.

Too much dependence has also had an infantilizing effect.

Dependence will decline as the international trade regime improves.

Energy dependence was a major source of economic vulnerability.

Unfortunately, with a large export sector that employs scores of millions of workers, this dependence has become structural, which implies that to reduce China s trade dependency and trade surplus is much more than a matter of adjusting macroeconomic policy.

Cyprus is a crucial staging post for American security operations in the eastern Mediterranean, and the gas fields off the Cypriot coast might be developed as an energy source that would at least after 2017 reduce European dependence on Russian supplies.

One of the most plausible scenarios in response to calls by governments and politicians around the world to reduce or even eliminate dependence on oil is a relative decline in investment in additional production capacity in the oil producing countries.

But, though the Ecuadoran and Bolivian economies are growing, the more productive sectors that would support sustainable expansion are not. Indeed, both countries have become more exposed to global economic volatility, despite their leaders vows to reduce dependence on the global capitalist order.

Even China, which is trying to shift its economy more toward consumption in order to reduce its dependence on capital spending, has put in place an infrastructure of roads, power grids, ports, and railways that will serve its domestic economy for decades.

So, in general, dependence on Russian gas should not be feared.

Declining dependence on external sources, properly pursued, is an important development.

Moreover, the US has not shaken off its dependence on oil.

The economy seemed to have escaped its dependence on inventory accumulation.

First, the production chain must shift from export dependence toward domestic consumption.

The first is that dependence on Middle East oil is increasingly risky.

This same short term thinking characterizes the world s dependence on fossil fuels.

One result was a deepening of North Korea s economic dependence on China.

This external dependence increases their vulnerability to external economic threats and shocks.

And at the same time, you have a number that you can call to get more information on commuting, or a low interest loan on a different kind of car, or whatever it is you're going to need to actually reduce your gasoline dependence.

But Raúl Castro wants to avoid dependence on one or two countries alone.

But the element of personal dependence is a throwback to the preindustrial world.

Commodity dependence, even with the creation of considerable domestic value added, remains high.

The Arrhenius equation is a formula for the temperature dependence of reaction rates.

More political education was needed to break the psychology and culture of dependence.