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Chinese consumer spending has remained strong despite the slowdown in industrial output and investment and the government’s efforts to constrain spending on luxury goods.
Yet much remains to bring the Chinese consumer to life.
Third, the tax law will decrease consumer health-care spending and adversely affect health outcomes among poor and at-risk populations.
While this asymmetry emerged because the US has received greater intellectual-property protections through the so-called TRIPS Agreement, the fact remains that tariffs undermine consumer interests, and are thus unjustifiable.
Unlike the West, Russia imports from China not so much consumer goods as engineering products.
China’s headline consumer price index (CPI) jumped 6.4% year on year in June, reaching its highest level since July 2008.
Consumer or market-driven demand – the kind most of us think of when we hear the word – is far less predictable, and therefore much riskier, than state-sponsored demand of the sort that landed a man on the moon.
East Asian economies leveraged their comparative advantage – low wages – to produce labor-intensive consumer goods.
As its wage levels rose, the US began importing consumer goods from Japan; then it shifted to importing these goods from the four “Asian tigers” – Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan – before finally sourcing most of these imports from China.
US consumer demand for daily necessities will not change simply by raising the costs of imported products.
The result, therefore, is the same: the US consumer would pay more for the same products.
At the time of that FOMC meeting, the consumer price index was increasing at about 3% per year.
Annual GDP growth slowed significantly in the last quarter, to 4.4%, consumer price inflation is high, and the current-account and budget deficits last year were too large.
Consumer price inflation is set to peak at close to 3% this year.
The main measures to control credit growth were a gradual increase in reserve requirements, beginning in 2010; some restrictions on consumer loans; and the introduction of credit-growth caps in the second half of 2011.
A report in 2012 by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation estimated that the circular economy concept could save the European Union alone $380 billion annually in materials for medium-lifespan consumer durables such as cars, furniture, and household electric appliances.
The second and third volumes of the report estimated that the world could save as much as $700 billion each year on single-use consumer goods like packaged food and beverages.
After spending a few days in Beijing, it was abundantly clear that China is undergoing a boom in Internet use, including as a consumer platform.
Prime borrowers with good credit scores and investment-grade firms are not experiencing a credit crunch at this point, as the former have access to mortgages and consumer credit while the latter have access to bond and equity markets.
The same holds for households, with millions of weaker and poorer borrowers defaulting on mortgages, credit cards, auto loans, student loans, and other forms of consumer credit.
The rapid rise in saving has reduced consumer spending, slowing the pace of GDP growth in 2009 and in early 2010.
How much of it is attributable to the weak economy, and how much is the result of changes in provider and consumer behavior?
In consumer electronics, for example, low-income countries became a natural location for labor-intensive assembly processes.
Russian capitalism hates the consumer as much as Russian communism did.
Currently, most biomaterials are off-the-shelf materials that were originally used in consumer applications.
Consumer demand is essentially autonomous, too, because the so-called induced part is yoked to autonomous investment through the “propensity to consume.”
At the Asia Society’s Diversity Leadership Forum earlier this month in New York, McDonald’s Director of Ethnic Marketing Vivien Chen described how the company has focused its marketing on the ethnic consumer.
McDonald’s has adopted a so-called “30-40-50” approach, because ethnic minorities (not only Asian-Americans) represent 30% of its overall business; 40% of its revenue; and 50% of its business from customers under the age of 18.Chen claims that its strategy – called “Leading with ethnic insights” – shows the company’s commitment to the Asian-American consumer.
In much the same way that cigarette companies shifted their focus to the developing world when regulators clamped down on their marketing practices in America, fast-food companies seem to be trying to capitalize on those portions of the global consumer base that have little exposure to health campaigns in their native languages.
Though the middle class in Africa has expanded markedly in recent years, generating a consumer boom and boosting domestic investment, many people still struggle to make a living.
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