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Meanwhile,
consumers
who held a substantial fraction of their wealth in housing were forced to revise their consumption plans in the face of declining values.
This imbalance means that producers of most goods and services are outside the West, but rely on Western
consumers
to absorb their output.
Yet China, whose
consumers
are perfectly able to absorb imports from the West, will remain wary of boosting middle-class demand while it is in fear of losing some of its Western export markets.
In the past 30 years, the global economy added 1.5 billion new connected workers in developing countries, with three billion new
consumers
in sight.
The goods that Europe exports include machinery, chemicals, and a variety of other products that
consumers
do not buy directly.
The burden of these spending cuts will fall on hand-to-mouth consumers, who will reduce their own spending dollar for dollar, denting aggregate demand.
Of course, doing so would yield benefits: $3 trillion saved by avoiding the need for other infrastructure investment, benefits to industry and
consumers
of around $500 billion, and reductions in CO2 emissions worth somewhere between $25 billion and $250 billion annually by 2030.
But the point of helicopter drops – or what former US Fed Chair Ben Bernanke recently called a “money-financed fiscal program” (MFFP) – is simply to distribute newly printed cash directly to consumers, such as through tax rebates.
Ensuring high-quality output and local consumers’ loyalty requires keeping their workforces happy and maintaining a positive public image.
Development groups, governments, consumers, and small entrepreneurs need only work out initiatives that embody their common interests with global firms.
By contrast, companies whose managers believe that a competitive marketplace is no place for ethical behavior will suffer if and when
consumers
take their business elsewhere; government regulation and fines force them to act; or they become unable to attract an educated and ever-more discerning workforce.
Rich country
consumers
are responding to higher energy prices, and it helps.
Hard Wisdom for Scarce WaterCAMBRIDGE – In California, residential
consumers
are being fined for wasting water.
In some parts of California and Texas, a portion of the water supply is provided to
consumers
for almost nothing – delivered by a network of dams, reservoirs, and aqueducts that were built decades ago.
Before its onset, America’s debt-ridden
consumers
were the engine of global growth.
The authorities’ new regulatory activism is late in coming, but it will ultimately benefit Chinese
consumers
and firms.
The targeting of multinationals – which have long received preferential treatment, including subsidies and regulatory incentives, while profiteering from Chinese consumers’ distrust of locally made products’ quality and safety – portends the creation of a more level playing field.
Even if farmed supplies from South Africa satisfied a portion of the demand globally, it will not alter demand among
consumers
drawn to wild product, or those who are indifferent about the source.
And the institutions behind the project have gained access to a much deeper pool of
consumers
than they would have if each had developed a separate digital platform.
Unfortunately, the pain of their loss will be compounded by economic hardship, highlighting the responsibility that rich-country
consumers
often must bear, both before and after such workplace catastrophes in developing countries.
Like the Everest disaster, the calamity at Rana Plaza raises fundamental issues about our global economy – namely, the way wealthy
consumers
ignore the fate of the impoverished workers who provide their cheap goods and services.
Of course, fiscal sustainability is vital to prevent a disruptive debt refinancing and inspire confidence among investors and
consumers.
Likewise, more and better-paid divorce lawyers increase GDP, because end
consumers
pay them.
So why give precedence to satisfying the needs of distant foreign
consumers?
While
consumers
waited in long lines – and even fought – to fill their gas tanks, governments attempted to encourage innovative solutions by, for example, raising efficiency requirements for automobiles and certain appliances, like refrigerators.
It is this process that turns sugar from a “food” into a “drug,” allowing the food industry to “hook” unsuspecting
consumers.
The best solution is to prevent addiction in the first place, and in the case of sugary processed foods, that means marketing truth to
consumers.
In short, we need to transform the Mediterranean countries into producers rather than
consumers
of regional stability.
The US government is thus essentially being paid in real terms to take investors’ money – a generous offer that it is accepting on a huge scale, in the hope that channeling these resources to American
consumers
will boost household spending and thus generate more jobs.
The fourth component of the “we” who must act are engaged
consumers
worldwide.
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