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Philanthropists can also create or support grassroots organizations that work with citizens to strengthen their ability to consume information critically.
Despite income growth, households are reluctant to consume and build; and, despite a surge in profits, companies are not inclined to take risks and invest.
The main reason for this is the enduring clout of China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which consume half of the country’s total bank credit, but contribute only 20% of value-added and employment.
Public investment serves to accumulate assets, rather than consume them.
Since China will be the most important market of the future, it will be decisive in determining not only what we produce and consume, but how.
In addition to the direct economic losses, because the pigs were no longer available to consume much of the garbage produced in Cairo, the numbers of rodents rose to fearsome levels.
In the 1990’s, military-backed secularist governments struck back, attempting to purge religious bureaucrats and military leaders: those who did not consume alcohol, or whose family members wore headscarves, were immediately suspected.
On the balance-sheet side, even if a temporary decline in long-term interest rates pushes up asset values, debt-burdened households with uncertain employment prospects are unlikely to rush to consume.
But Eurobonds would also create huge incentive problems, because debtors in the eurozone periphery would no longer have to fear any punishment by markets and might thus be induced to consume and invest too much.
The unwillingness of the Chinese to consume enabled Americans to build new houses for many years on borrowed money and to maintain a level of consumption that the US economy was unable to finance on its own.
Instead of diluting IP rights, developing countries like India should recognize that strengthening IP protection is a prerequisite for attracting the foreign investment that they need to help their economies grow, create jobs, and improve their citizens’ capacity to consume.
Computers and robots, by contrast, do not consume anything except electricity, even as they complete leg, finger, and even brain activities faster and more efficiently than humans would.
Put another way, globalization lowered the wages of low-skill advanced-country workers because others would perform their jobs more cheaply, and then consume the value that they had created.
For the past three years, falling interest rates have been the engine of growth, as households took on more debt to refinance their mortgages and used some of the savings to consume.
Asia’s Month of MilestonesCANBERRA – For grand strategy buffs, this has been quite a month, with several events looking like the kind of turning points that will consume future historians.
Indirect subsidies are also regressive, because the rich consume more than the poor – and hence appropriate more of the subsidy.
Thanks to skillful marketing, an Indonesian company convinced millions of Nigerians in just five years to consume an instant-noodle product, known as Indomie, instead of the popular cassava product called Garri.
Non-US oil producers sell a good denominated in dollars but consume a basket of dollar and non-dollar items.
Towards a Green NanotechnologyThe advent of nanotechnology, the branch of engineering that seeks to build objects molecule by molecule – indeed, atom by atom – has evoked futuristic images of self-replicating “nanobots” that perform surgery, or that convert the planet into a mass of “grey goo” as they consume everything in sight.
Efficient buildings enable countries to produce and consume less energy, which supports economic development, because money is freed up for other projects, while promoting energy security and environmental sustainability.
Developing nations lavish their limited resources on hospitals, which consume more than 50% of healthcare budgets in many poor countries.
As for the general public, low- and middle-income households should oppose the BAT, which would drive up prices of the now-cheap imported goods that these groups currently consume, though Trump’s blue-collar constituents, particularly those who work in manufacturing, may support the measure.
While the two countries together consume slightly less than half as much oil as the US, their consumption is increasing faster.
When poor countries consume as much per capita as rich countries, will there be enough oil to go around?
Most experts predict that such a move would drive the price of oil – including the Venezuelan, Nigerian, and other oil that the US, China, and India consume – above $100 per barrel.
Consumer demand is essentially autonomous, too, because the so-called induced part is yoked to autonomous investment through the “propensity to consume.”
While First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative attempts to curtail sharply the amount of unhealthy fast food that Americans consume, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has launched a campaign to crack down on “super-sized” sodas, Asia is witnessing the opposite trend.
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO, the leading nonpartisan experts), Social Security, together with Medicare, Medicaid, and other health-care programs, will grow to consume almost all tax revenues by 2035.
And if consumers spend smaller shares of their disposable income on each purchase they make, they will have room to consume more, thus boosting overall economic activity.
The economist Tyler Cowen has suggested that developing countries may benefit from the trickle-down of innovation from the advanced economies: they can consume a stream of new products at cheap prices.
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