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Given that nearly all consumer and industrial products are in short supply in Africa, similar job-creation partnerships could be established in other sectors, resulting in permanent, mutually beneficial cooperation between Europe and Africa.
If one accounts for consumer goods expenditure on imports, that 10% appreciation would lower inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), by just 0.5 percentage points in the first two quarters.
Contrary to the government’s expectations, the peso’s depreciation had a large impact on consumer prices – as critics had warned.
As Iran imported everything from consumer goods to industrial materials and machinery, almost every sector of its economy became increasingly dependent on foreign goods, forcing small and medium-size producers to shut down.
Still, some countries may have room to raise tariffs on certain consumer goods.
Moreover, the uncertainties over war are hurting America's economy (and economies elsewhere), by causing a postponement of business plans and falling consumer confidence.
For the first time, voters in the country that is the world’s largest consumer of illicit drugs in general, and marijuana in particular, approved propositions legalizing possession, production, and distribution of cannabis – and by relatively broad margins.
Even US electricity giant Duke Energy, a major coal consumer, won green kudos for promoting a US cap-and-trade scheme.
And here, too, integration is essential to scale and connect markets, reduce consumer costs, and drive growth.
China now plans to raise the relative growth rate of real wages and to encourage increased consumer spending.
Indeed, notwithstanding the Fed’s massive liquidity injection, the American consumer – who suffered the most during the wrenching balance-sheet recession of 2008-2009 – has not recovered.
We need to recognize that what really matters isn’t buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives.
A higher level of consumer spending would raise the average Chinese family’s standard of living, a primary component of what China’s leaders now call the “Chinese Dream.”
Faster growth in consumer spending would also reverse the recent slowdown in GDP growth, providing the extra demand needed to create employment for the millions of Chinese who are leaving agriculture and the millions more who are graduating from the country’s universities.
Consumer spending in China now accounts for just 36% of GDP, about half the consumption share of GDP in the United States and Western Europe.
Chinese officials hope that higher household incomes will boost consumer spending, as the tightening labor market causes wages to rise and as urbanization shifts workers from low-productivity farm work to higher-wage employment in the cities.
Reducing the share of income that Chinese households save could also raise consumer spending faster and more easily.
This tax-favored employee saving plan is a good substitute for more comprehensive social-security pensions, but it has had the undesirable effect of increasing household saving, rather than increasing consumer spending.
In short, favorable tax treatment of the purchase of insurance for major medical costs would reduce the national saving rate, increase consumer spending, lower the public’s anxiety about the cost of treatment, and increase the quantity of health care.
But these are impeding the consumer spending needed to boost economic activity and kick-start growth.
Rising energy bills, driven by the cost of fossil fuels, are a massive political issue in many countries in Europe and elsewhere, including the United States, where consumer energy prices have become a major issue in the run-up to this year’s presidential election.
It takes 1.6 liters of water, on average, to package one liter of bottled water, making the industry a major water consumer and wastewater generator.
The problems do not stop when the water reaches the consumer.
Following its strategic “opening up” almost 40 years ago, China provided an abundant source of cheap land and labor, which enabled it to achieve economies of scale in consumer manufacturing.
Then, as China moved toward middle-income status, it became a major consumer market in itself.
A typical bank exam would include scrutiny of every single business loan and a large proportion of consumer loans.
Carson drew on scientific findings, but also voiced fundamental misgivings about consumer capitalism and a “postmaterialistic” belief in the primacy of the quality of life over economic growth.
Perhaps Western-style consumer societies offer too many choices, but Cuba provides far too few.
But, looking ahead, the five-year plan will cause the saving rate to decline, as China seeks to increase consumer spending and therefore the standard of living of the average Chinese.
Higher domestic consumer spending would otherwise create inflationary pressures.
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