But instead, that the typical advisor client relationship transition from a state of dependence to one of interdependence where people are more involved in the investment management selection and monitoring process.

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Funded individual pensions liberate citizens, especially the less well-off, from dependence on the state in retirement, and replace that dependence with financial self-determination.

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Offering employees a choice of placing their payroll taxes in their own retirement account reduces dependence on the state.

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Employers should be free to make the type of retirement provision which best suits their needs and those of their employees, and the regulatory and fiscal framework should encourage them to do this - after all, one consequence of such provision is likely to be a reduced dependence on the State in later years.

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Zhang Xinmin, an agricultural official with the State Statistical Bureau, argues that dependence on foreign suppliers would impose a burden on the Chinese government and the world market.

ECONOMIST: China

It would be good, too, for Yukos, which wants to build an eastward pipeline to get its own oil out of Siberia and reduce its dependence on Russia's state-run oil-transport company.

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Given their dependence on tobacco revenues, it is unlikely that finance ministers and state treasurers around the world would be so enthusiastic about increasing taxes if they really thought it would lead to smokers quitting en masse.

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Reducing America's petrol consumption by 20% by 2017, a target he announced in the state-of-the-union address, would certainly diminish the country's dependence on Middle Eastern oil, but the way he plans to go about it may not be either efficient or clean.

ECONOMIST: Climate change