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Rapid GDP growth requires high savings and investment, and high savings almost never result from free consumer choice.
The column was reprinted on a blog maintained by CUTS International (Consumer Unity and Trust Society), the most important developing-country NGO today, leading to an outpouring of reactions from trade experts.
In the United States, the so-called core CPI (consumer price index) – which excludes food and energy – has headed down just when it was supposed to be going up.
The second insight from the 2013 China Development Forum is the new government’s focus on strengthening the social safety net as a pillar of a modern consumer society.
The impact of ratings depends on whether the typical consumer actually reads online reviews before making a decision.
At the sector level, businesses providing consumer goods to the growing middle class in emerging markets have become more attractive to global investors, while capital-intensive and cyclical businesses have lost their luster.
The sharp fall in house prices that followed caused a dramatic downturn in household wealth, leading to lower consumer spending and an overall fall in GDP.
Officials imagine that consumer protection requires another regulation whenever something goes wrong, resulting in thickets of rules that protect incumbents and lead to all kinds of unintended consequences and complexities.
The last generation of Soviet leaders well understood the importance of maintaining living standards, which is why they used revenues from oil and gas exports to import consumer goods.
Clinton's Second Term And The American EconomyNEW HAVEN: Bill Clinton could not have asked for a better election year economy: unemployment averaging 5.2%, the lowest since 1973; 10.7 million new jobs since 1992, a gain of 9%; inflation steady at around 3%; a stock market booming and low interest rates; consumer and business confidence high; the budget deficit cut four years in a row, falling 63% to $107billion, 1.4% of gdp.
The Economist recently reported that economists it had surveyed predict that consumer prices in the US and Japan will actually fall for 2009 as a whole, while inflation in the euro zone will be only 0.6%.
South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand will also see declines in consumer price levels.
On the contrary, by increasing Spaniards’ real disposable incomes, low inflation is helping to stimulate private consumption, fueling a corresponding improvement in economic sentiment indicators, including consumer trust.
Yet, what is the point of producing goods few want, that are not available and might rot away before they reach the consumer?
The business community certainly understands the potential, given the masses of soccer-related consumer goods, high retail mark-ups on sportswear, and blanket advertising both on and off the pitch.
With the US government currently tapping financial markets for a whopping 12% of national income (roughly $1.5 trillion), foreign borrowing would be off the scale but for a sudden surge in US consumer and corporate savings.
Consumer spending is particularly robust, as wages show signs of upward movement.
But if the populist victories that worry investors do not in fact happen, a surge of business and consumer confidence will send waves of investment flowing into the eurozone.
Higher productivity implies faster economic growth, more consumer spending, increased labor demand, and thus greater job creation.
If they don’t, sponsors will leave themselves exposed to a consumer backlash as FIFA’s poor reputation rubs off on their brands.
While the Fed tries to look past transitory fluctuations in commodity prices, it will be hard to ignore rising consumer inflation as the huge drop of the past year – particularly in energy prices – stabilizes or even reverses.
For example, in 2010, South Africa’s richest 10% accounted for 53% of total consumer spending.
Consumer spending dropped sharply in October, owing to negative wealth effects and heightened uncertainty, but it quickly stabilized and recovered, while investment spending remained essentially unchanged.
Market volatility declined, as did the associated uncertainty, buttressing consumer confidence.
The Middle Eastern uprisings have pushed oil prices higher, eating up consumer purchasing power while raising input prices for many producers.
At the same time, Japan’s trifecta of calamities – the massive earthquake, devastating tsunami, and paralyzing nuclear disaster – have gutted consumer confidence and disrupted cross-border production chains (especially in technology and car factories).
With housing being such a critical driver of consumer behavior, any further substantial fall in home prices will sap confidence and lower spending.
Indeed, Public Citizen, a US consumer advocacy group, has calculated that, in the US alone, the pharmaceutical industry has paid out billions of dollars as a result of court judgments and financial settlements between pharmaceutical manufacturers and federal and state governments.
Russian corruption goes beyond levels experienced elsewhere, and for three reasons:The Communist Party, where many leaders began their careers, was a breeding ground for corruption in the form of privileges (dachas, private hospitals, restaurants, vacation homes, scarce consumer goods) reserved for communist leaders.
Annual growth in the consumer price index peaked at 6.5% in July 2011.
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