Foreign dependency generally fosters underdevelopment in the dependent country; a country's adoption of policies tailored to the interests of a stronger country may inhibit the weaker country's domestic growth, speed environmental destruction, or create temporary growth that precludes sustainable development and economic independence.
"We really don't want to trade one foreign dependency, oil, for another foreign dependency, batteries".
"We really don't want to trade one foreign dependency, oil, for another foreign dependency, batteries". The main producers of batteries are Asian manufacturers.
Some experts regard foreign dependency as an extension of colonial trade patterns.
The production of fuels and chemicals from biorenewable resources is important to alleviate the environmental concerns, costs, and foreign dependency associated with the use of petroleum feedstock.
Foreign dependency, global power structure in which weaker countries are economically reliant on stronger countries, allowing the stronger countries to exercise significant control over the weaker countries' economic and political behaviour.
He added that it signaled to Congress that it "must get serious about automobile efficiency and combating dangerous foreign oil dependency and global warming".
This was very much a debate that highlighted the staunch differences between the two candidates on issues such as abortion, healthcare, economic policy, trade agreements, mortgage bail-outs and foreign oil dependency.
Increased foreign oil dependency, the same nightmare that the U.S. struggled with for 40 years, will now plague Beijing.
China will still be overly reliant on imported oil and likely maintain a foreign oil dependency rate of at least 60%.
