Mr Sanders said a move to regionalise benefits could lead to people in welfare-dependent parts of the South West where housing costs are lower, getting less.

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Like many others in the region, the neighbouring spa town of Ilkley is highly dependent on tourism following a general decline in West Yorkshire s textile industry.

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The only place that might not see more capacity is the West Coast, said Kloza, wherethere is little refinery expansion planned, leaving the region more dependent on expensive imports.

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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.

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But it is as well to keep in mind that many intellectuals in the West still consider capitalism to be immoral: too devoted to a vulgar worship of money, too dependent on greed, too deeply founded on adversarial individualism.

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