Mr. Geithner is certainly right that China needs to adjust its export-dependent growth model, which has struggled amid the decline of global demand.
The fact is, most income securities are not dependent on growth or profitability.
The city, he notes, has a balanced budget with conservative estimates of future revenue that are not dependent on growth in real estate taxes or land sales.
As commercial real estate space demand is highly dependent on economic growth this certainly did not look good.
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For good reason, you might say: given a fragile recovery, all of us in Europe are now unusually dependent on US growth.
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Tax revenue, on the other hand, is utterly dependent on economic growth.
These poorer nations are becoming more dependent on the growth of BRIC economies than they are on the growth of the US and European economies.
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But the rise masks one big problem: Only 49% of Liberty's distance-learning students, the fastest-growing and easily the most profitable population, return year to year, making growth dependent on new-student recruitment.
The U.S. is as dependent on China for its economic and military health and economic growth as China is dependent on the U.S. for its key markets, reserve finance, and global capitalist trading regime.
Yet Asia's supposedly export-dependent economies have resumed growth before the rest of the world.
At the low end of the business, growth is dependent on adding franchisees and hitting them with fee-based services.
One thing for sure, though, if this trend does continue, it suggests that consumers are retrenching, not a good sign for an economy where 70% of economic growth is dependent on consumption.
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The best way to narrow the deficit is by increasing exports at a faster pace than a growth in imports, but export growth is dependent on foreign economies and takes time, Mr. Rajan said.
Currently, the pace of this growth only is dependent on Apple ability to manufacture these devices.
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For one thing, China's economic growth is heavily dependent on its access to U.S. markets.
The economic growth has been dependent on QE2, which ends in a week.
Our growth is generally dependent upon our ability to obtain new contracts to develop and manage new correctional and detention facilities.
At present, growth is too dependent on exports, while consumption is weak.
Of course with so many European economies dependent on government spending for growth, these budget cuts will lead to deeper economic contraction, more job losses, higher unemployment, and lower tax revenues.
In terms of capital structure, equity REITs with lower leverage that are less dependent on capital markets for growth or refinancing of capital should be relatively better-positioned to expand balance sheets and weather economic and financial volatility.
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As the euro crisis continues and the West shows little signs of growth, the World Bank says that global economic growth is increasingly dependent on the BRICS countries, which account for 27 percent of global purchasing power and 45 percent of the world's workforce.
American economic growth has been heavily dependent on borrowing and leverage for the last decade.
This provides anther leg of growth that is less dependent on ad spending.
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But ministers are right to point out that households dependent on benefits have seen faster growth in their incomes recently than many in work.
In the depth of the crisis, as trade for a while seized up, the region, as one of the most trade-dependent in the world, saw growth plummet.
If defensive stocks are outperforming those that are more dependent on the economy's growth, it could be signal from the market that a slowdown is ahead, these investors argue.
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Legislators concerned about Israel should know that inventors there - one of the most dynamic drivers in that nation's stupendous growth - are extremely dependent upon the protections afforded by the U.S. patent system, since Israeli patents are systematically ignored by other nations.
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The government is taking measures to stabilize growth by pushing for more investment projects, reducing tax burdens and allowing private sector investment in strategic industries as China tries moving away from being a low-cost manufacturing hub dependent on the ever-declining growth of the developed world.
Long dependent on finicky foreign capital to stimulate growth, emerging markets have often collapsed when capital left.
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