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It was assumed that the improvement in investors’ portfolio performance – reflected in a more than threefold rise in the S&P 500 from its crisis-induced low in March 2009 – would spur a burst of spending by increasingly wealthy consumers.
And some are implementing risk-management and hedging tools to shield farmers from drought and flood, and poor consumers from the food-price volatility that such disasters cause.
Investments should ensure an equitable division of benefits between producers and consumers, and include smallholder participation and linkages to markets for inputs and outputs.
Aside from ignorance of the Lisbon Strategy among the public and inaction on long-term reforms among the member states, a second problem concerns the lack of acceptance of the virtues of competition – the most effective way to ensure quality, innovation, and low prices for consumers.
As consumers they are used to instant gratification.
For the last decade, the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain) were the eurozone's consumers of first and last resort, spending more than their income and running ever-larger current-account deficits.
For many developing countries, high oil and food prices represent a triple threat: not only do importing countries have to pay more for grain, they have to pay more to bring it to their countries and still more to deliver it to consumers who may live a long distance from ports.
When it comes to agriculture, developed countries, such as the US and European Union members, insulate both consumers and farmers from these risks.
Consumers worldwide are finding that they can access virtually unlimited choice on the Internet – including customized goods and services that big retailers simply cannot deliver.
The real question is how India’s creaking supply chains will respond when consumers leapfrog hypermarkets and go online.
In fact, even if biopharmed plants were to contaminate food crops, the likelihood that consumers would end up with harmful amounts of prescription drugs in their corn flakes, pasta, or tofu is very small.
Aren’t the tariffs a tax on the goods purchased by American consumers?
The tariffs are indeed a tax on American consumers and firms that use Chinese products in their production processes.
Either way, imposing tariffs on imports from Mexico would merely operate as a tax on US consumers.
Greater financial regulation in the US means consumers will not be able to borrow so easily to rack up huge mortgage and credit card debt.
Chinese consumers, on the other hand, might actually start spending more of their income if they can worry a bit less about saving for health care, their children’s education, and their old-age retirement.
And will China’s coastal export interests again prevail in exchange rate policy decisions, at the expense of poor inland consumers?
The obvious candidates to replace them are Chinese and other Asian consumers, whose combined economies are more than equal to that of the US.
Firms might be induced to move some production back to the US, if it is strictly aimed at US consumers.
That shock is benefiting consumers and poses no threat to price stability, at least in countries that are net oil importers.
Even companies catering to the “silver market” (elderly consumers) have barely begun to develop more age-friendly employment practices.
Europe’s “single digital market,” they argue, currently amounts “to a jumble of outdated, corporatist, counterproductive industrial policies that favor producers over consumers, big companies over small, traditional incumbents over digital startups, and EU firms over foreign ones.”
The decision by the IARC to classify substances like 2,4-D and glyphosate as potentially harmful is likely to cause alarm among farmers and consumers, who will wonder about the appropriateness of its continued use in commercial agriculture or gardening.
In fact, they can play a positive role as active consumers – a potential that many industries have already recognized and begun to tap.
China’s consumers should also draw comfort from the likely move to market-based deposit rates on their savings accounts, which will reinforce incremental growth in wage income.
Thanks to new financial technologies (fintech), consumers can shop seamlessly, migrants can send hard-earned money to their families cheaply, small businesses can access credit in minutes through Big Data-driven profiling, and savers can shape their own investment destinies.
Instead of applying their home countries’ ethical requirements and standards in the countries where they operate, Western companies draw a veil of subsidiaries, contractors, and supply chains over behavior that consumers and investors would consider reprehensible.
Whereas Oettinger’s predecessor, Neelie Kroes, championed the potential of disruptive technologies to benefit consumers and boost economic growth, Oettinger is unashamedly corporatist in advancing German business interests.
But, whereas US antitrust law rightly focuses on whether consumers are being harmed, EU competition authorities also consider whether rival firms have lost out – including old-fashioned shopping portals, such as Ladenzeile.de,
And it should throw its weight behind a genuine EU digital single market that benefits consumers and enables startups to flourish, instead of a backdoor industrial policy that favors Germany’s digital flops.
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