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This includes highways, bridges, and railways linking rural producers in landlocked countries to Africa’s urban consumers and external markets; mass transit and Internet infrastructure to accommodate greater commercial activity; and electricity transmission lines integrating privately financed power plants and grids.
Far more often, the main beneficiaries are the rich and politically connected, while the losers are consumers who pay higher prices.
And, of course, if the US were to raise its import tariffs sharply, a large part of the costs would be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices.
On one hand, there is a need for increased media literacy on the part of consumers, who need to be taught, from a young age, about the real-world consequences of online hate speech.
People everywhere, consumers and investors alike, are canceling spending plans, because the world economy seems very risky right now.
Imports plummeted by nearly 50% in the year after devaluation, as consumers were forced to buy Russian-made food, clothes, and other goods.
Of course Facebook is manipulating its users – just like all companies that use advertising to induce consumers to crave a double cheeseburger, a sexy dress, or a sexy partner.
And they lure consumers into paying more by offering an over-priced option that makes anything less expensive seem reasonable.
American consumers will save more and spend less, abandoning the pattern of the last few years.
Second, American consumers increased spending as a result of their paper wealth, reducing or eliminating their savings from income because their stock market wealth would protect them in the future.
For every dollar of income produced in America, spending by consumers, businesses, and the government now equals one dollar and four cents.
If you routinely buy such foods, you are among LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) consumers – the health food industry’s cherished demographic base.
Likewise, big data offers untold benefits to companies and consumers, but poses a real threat to privacy and personal freedom.
Indeed, with its 500 million consumers, the EU single market remains the largest destination for goods and services worldwide and is the best engine to restore growth.
A decline in oil prices is to some extent a zero-sum game, with producers losing and consumers gaining.
The usual thinking is that lower prices stimulate global demand, because consumers are likely to spend most of the windfall, whereas producers typically adjust by cutting back savings.
Countries such as India and China stabilize retail energy markets through government-financed subsidies to keep price down for consumers.
When it comes to Facebook, moreover, users are not just passive consumers, given that the company traffics in their data.
So Facebook owes its users protections, in their capacity as both consumers and producers.
Gradual, predictable, and reliable increases in energy prices would provide strong incentives for consumers to reduce their energy bills.
For example, more efficient energy and resource use can lower costs; better management of human talent can boost productivity; stricter safety, health, and environmental rules can reduce the risk of serious accidents; and new green or fair-trade products that appeal to consumers can increase revenues.
Because crude oil is priced in US dollars, and the dollar has depreciated against the euro, European consumers have gotten off relatively easy from rising energy prices.
Whether consumers’ generally tolerant attitudes toward these companies will be sufficient to offset historic concerns over size and abuse of market power remains to be seen.
If the 7-8 million people who live in those cities – and in the numerous towns, villages, and other areas between them – can be connected via infrastructure, they can act as a single unit in terms of their roles as consumers and producers.
But perhaps the best way to change the way livestock are raised is by putting pressure on major food companies – a feat that consumers could achieve most effectively.
This means that the cost of tariffs will fall mainly on US consumers and importers, pushing up US inflation and interest rates, rather than hitting Chinese economic activity and jobs.
A weaker dollar is needed to make American goods more attractive to foreign consumers.
The chemical industryhelps other sectors produce a vast range of environmentally friendly, everyday productsthat consumers are increasingly demanding, including shampoos, mobile phones,paper, tennis shoes, clothes, medicines, and cars.
In the short term, policymakers must address declining demand for Indian products, both among domestic consumers and in export markets.
This shift is putting downward pressure on wholesale electricity prices and offsetting the cost of South Australia’s Renewable Energy Target in the short term, all to the benefit of consumers.
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