These include the weakening of the industrial base, a neglected infrastructure, the dependence on public and private debt, the lunatic housing market, the excessive strength of finance.
To truly challenge China's economic allure, India still must overcome challenges, such as its shoddy and incomplete infrastructure and dependence on fossil fuels.
"This will mean much higher rates of global emission reductions in the medium term; greater lock-in of carbon-intensive infrastructure; greater dependence on often unproven technologies in the medium term; greater costs of mitigation in the medium and long term; and greater risks of failing to meet the 2C target," the UN Environment Program stated.
Fourth, that new consensus is driven by several principles that any sentient American politician needs to respect: Fix our own broken house and the five deadly D's that are keeping it in disrepair: Debt, Deficit, Dysfunctional Politics, Decaying Infrastructure and Dependence on Middle East hydrocarbons.
These results reflect the main obstacles that hindered deeper economic integration in COMESA such as poor condition of trade related infrastructure, the dependence on few primary commodities for export, the orientation towards extra regional trade, in addition to export identical products with low productivity.
Critical to national security are a healthy, well-educated population, modern infrastructure and reduced dependence on imported energy sources.
It is more resilient than most, with a tight-knit community infrastructure – but a dependence on low-skilled manual work and a poor educational infrastructure may hinder the community's and the town's long-term recovery.
Louisiana has all the textbook problems of a resource-extraction economy: a poor education system, poor infrastructure, an excessive dependence on taxing business, and a scary degree of exposure to fluctuations in commodity prices.
The PICs share regional commonalities: a narrowly based economy, limited national infrastructure, and aid dependence [ 4].
Wetland systems are also less energy-dependent, lessening dependence on electrical infrastructure, and require simpler maintenance since the system largely relies on the ecological action of microbes and plants for their efficacy.
