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Of course, central banks do not normally speak directly to consumers.

The BoE has made some recent efforts to address consumers, but its direct reach is inevitably modest.

If high-income countries close themselves – and their consumers – off from global markets, the world’s poorest people will suffer the most.

The US, for its part, relied on cheap goods made in China to stretch hard-pressed consumers’ purchasing power.

The trick is to get consumers to use these tools – which will require an awareness campaign along the lines of public health messages.

Surveys indicate that the internal market has helped more than 60% of companies that export to more than five EU countries boost their cross-border sales, and that 80% of consumers believe that the range of goods has increased, while 67% say that their quality has improved.

For capital and big business, EU membership is an economic imperative, offering access to 500 million consumers and reserves of cheap, qualified labor.

But, over time, online-payment platforms gained Chinese consumers’ trust, paving the way for explosive growth in e-tailing.

Instead of focusing on large-scale, one-size-fits-all production, firms must use the data they receive to glean more detailed insights about consumers’ preferences and expectations – and expand their portfolios to include the niche products that consumers crave.

Given that the Internet empowers consumers to compare offerings directly and choose the most economical and attractive option, firms that attempt to adhere to business as usual will quickly be overtaken by their competitors.

In an even larger area – and for a much longer time – consumers reject the products.

For example, banks would curtail mortgage lending in response to higher rates paid on sterilization bonds, forcing consumers to save more in order to buy houses.

The Dollar Wars ReturnFaced by uncertain re-election prospects, and worried about job losses, US President George W. Bush has begun to blame other countries, sending his Treasury Secretary to demand that they raise their exchange rates in order to make foreign goods more expensive for American consumers.

The longer it takes for these companies to recognize their systemic importance, the greater the likelihood of a more powerful backlash by governments and the public, hurting the companies and undermining their ability to continue producing innovations that genuinely boost consumers’ wellbeing.

Fueling Big Tech’s remarkable growth further, many of these companies’ services are ostensibly free, facilitating quick adoption by consumers.

In an ideal world, major tech companies would recognize and adjust to their changing role in step with external actors, including governments and consumers, thereby striking the right balance between innovation, consumer benefits and protection, and national security.

In the last two years, Japan’s stock market has almost doubled in value, increasing the wealth of Japanese consumers.

With rapid economic growth have come more prosperous consumers – and vice versa: 45% of Africa’s total GDP growth in the 2000’s (before the financial crisis erupted in 2008) came from consumer-related sectors of the economy.

But, for many companies entering Africa or seeking to expand there from a local base, the challenge now is to obtain a better understanding of the market and its consumers.

Befitting the continent’s strong macro trends, the survey found a high degree of optimism among urban African consumers: 84% of respondents expect their households to be better off in two years.

Overall, consumers are increasing their spending across most retail categories.

Up to 30% of the more optimistic consumers in some countries say that they are shopping more frequently and purchasing new and more expensive products.

For apparel consumers, for example, quality is second only to price when choosing a store, and second only to fashion when choosing a specific item.

To succeed, companies should work to reach consumers’ price points through a combination of product reengineering (such as removing low-value-added features), smaller package sizes, and low-cost operating models.

Although such subsidies hurt US producers of steel and aluminum, the resulting low prices also help US firms that use steel and aluminum, as well as US consumers that buy those products.

Over time – but this could take years – consumers could invest in alternative energy sources and reduce demand for fossil fuels via carbon taxes and new technologies.

Because energy and food security are matters of economic as well as social and political stability, policies that reduce commodity-price volatility should be in the interest of producers and consumers.

New research by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) shows that spending by Africa’s consumers and businesses already totals $4 trillion.

Excluding this inventory swing, annualized growth in “final sales” to consumers, businesses, and the government averaged a tepid 1.6%.

When both bubbles burst – first housing, and then credit – asset-dependent US consumers were exposed to the American strain of the Japanese disease first diagnosed by Nomura economist Richard Koo.Koo has stressed the lingering perils of a balance-sheet recession centered on the corporate sector of the Japanese economy; but the analysis is equally applicable to bubble-dependent US consumers.

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