Consumers
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Their actions can – and often do – harm competition and growth, while failing to protect
consumers.
Decriminalization of consumption also reduces dealers’ power to influence and control consumers’ behavior.
Moreover, most of the damage associated with marijuana use – from the indiscriminate incarceration of
consumers
to the violence and corruption associated with the drug trade – is the result of current prohibitionist policies.
As a result, significant amounts of income are transferred from
consumers
to small groups protected by the law.
The immediate result was an upsurge in confidence among both businesses and
consumers.
This attention economy is not the intention economy beloved of vendors, who grab consumers’ attention in order to sell them something.
Once Africa’s
consumers
have access to electricity, they will want home appliances and other goods, which will generate demand for new services and create even more opportunities for skilled workers.
In addition, the dramatic drop in the price of crude oil will serve as the equivalent of a large tax cut for
consumers.
They also believe that the government deficit drives up inflation and interest rates, thereby crowding out other spending by
consumers
and firms.
Europe and the United States were the largest meat
consumers
in the twentieth century, with the average person eating 60-90 kilograms (132-198 pounds) annually – far more than is required to meet humans’ nutritional needs.
Implementing these changes would send a clear signal that European policymakers take consumers’ wishes seriously.
And in the Philippines, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas helped double the number of access points where
consumers
could obtain financial services, supporting the opening of 517 micro-banking offices, many of them in municipalities with no traditional bank branches.
Consumers
and their political representatives want regulators to be aware of every transaction, ready to intervene in real time if any glitch occurs.
Indeed, most of the successful companies in this domain sell directly to
consumers
and conduct transactions via digital payment services that enable them to avoid transactional barriers, such as government procurement regulations and high bank fees.
Finally, governments must implement regulations that strike a balance between protecting investors and consumers, and giving banks, retailers, and financial-technology and telecommunications companies room to compete and innovate.
Unless they want to settle for slower growth, lagging labor absorption, and heightened risk of social instability, they must move aggressively to shift focus to the region’s own 3.5 billion
consumers.
Consistent with the idea that households at lower income levels were “keeping up with the Vanderbilts,” the non-rich (but not the really poor) living near high-spending wealthy
consumers
tended to spend much more on items that richer households usually consumed, such as jewelry, beauty and fitness, and domestic services.
Exports will help reactivate the Argentine economy, while
consumers
in Europe and America will benefit from high quality goods at lower prices.
“Whenever we buy products made in China,” he wrote last year of the US and its allies, “we as
consumers
are helping to finance a Chinese military buildup that may well mean to do us and our countries harm.”
To develop these markets, companies will need talented people, from ethnographers (to understand consumers’ customs and preferences) to engineers (to design products that fit a new definition of value).
But the longer they wait, the weaker the stimulus to economic activity and income, and the more
consumers
must rely on dissaving to translate their positive sentiment into actual purchases of goods and services.
The Trump administration would also have to refrain from pursuing protectionist trade measures that would disrupt the “spaghetti bowl” of cross-border value chains for both producers and
consumers.
Neighbors that used to be transit states for drugs are now major consumers, owing to similar dramatic increases in opium and heroin addiction.
For example, as
consumers
of media, we have power: the next time you are peddled a sex scandal, refuse to buy it.
For example, economics can explain in this way why
consumers
buy what they do.
Moreover, Russia’s efforts to gain monopoly control of the gas pipeline networks across Eurasia pose a direct danger for China, because monopolists can not only gouge their consumers, but also shut off supplies for political purposes, as Russia has done repeatedly over the past two decades.
Yet
consumers
of energy services have no particular interest in what sources of energy fuel their production, transportation, lighting, heating, air conditioning, or appliances.
Created by oil
consumers
in the 1970’s in response to the OPEC price shocks and the embargoes by Arab oil exporters, the IEA has succeeded in establishing and supervising a system of national oil stockpiles, which has helped to prevent a recurrence.
The International Energy Forum, which grew out of a series of meetings of energy ministers, is intended to provide a common forum for fossil-fuel producers and
consumers.
They will not, in the foreseeable future, operate on a scale that can foster a rapid transition away from fossil fuels or provide energy services to billions of new
consumers.
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