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Consumers of cheap clothing from China will be worse off.
Over the next 20 years, the number of middle-class consumers is expected to rise to some three billion, from 1.8 billion today.
Even as China continues its economic opening, however, it is looking increasingly inward, at its citizens to serve as consumers and at its businesses to adopt and advance new technologies.
In the US, where mid-term congressional elections will be held this November, the outcry from exporters, importers, and consumers facing higher costs will be heard loud and clear.
Similarly, if Trump really does want to redistribute some income from capital to labor, and from corporate profits to wages (admittedly a big “if”), his policies could boost consumption; but his populist, protectionist policies would undermine business confidence, and thus capital expenditures, while reducing consumers’ purchasing power through higher inflation.
But if consumers show that they will pay a little more for shoes that are made without violating labor standards, they can undercut the immoral firm’s advantage.
Gas became artificially cheap, consumers seldom bothered to turn the thermostat down, and producers stopped investing.
In this environment, Argentine consumers naturally also went on a spending spree, and corporate profits rose accordingly.
Workers in the host country, such as software technicians and call-center operators, clearly benefit from BPO, but so do shareholders and company owners (whose profits grow) and consumers (who pay lower prices).
Mini-grids can ensure that consumers retain access to power when the grid suffers interruptions.
And they can sell electricity to retail consumers, utilities, or both.
This powerful consumer base will demand the products – such as housing, appliances, automobiles, and computers – that European consumers demanded over the last 50 years.
Over the last two years, India has invalidated or otherwise attacked patents on 15 drugs produced by international firms in order to make way for local champions, claiming that exclusivity enables companies to charge high prices that harm consumers.
And that is likely to be an upper bound, because it assumes that US retailers will pass through to consumers the full amount of any increase in import prices.
It would be attractive not simply because the People’s Bank of China and other major Chinese institutions have massive overseas assets, but because China produces goods that the world’s consumers continue to want.
The problem, for scientists and consumers alike, is that the benefits are not the same for everyone.
Movies produced for the sexual gratification of consumers reveal cultural norms of restriction, transgression, and otherness.
In fact, porn is so specifically tuned to the tastes of consumers that shifts can indicate changes in a society almost immediately.
Likewise, Facebook and Google dominate the digital advertising market, but their profits allow them to offer ostensibly free email and social-media services that benefit consumers.
Businesses see opportunities for taxpayer-funded subsidies, and to pass on inevitable cost growth to consumers.
Because the expected gridlock in parliament would make reforms less likely, companies might hold off on investment, while consumers would be more likely to keep their wallets closed, because official policy would be even less clear than it is now.
It is empty, because the European Commission has no budget to buy US soybeans or any means to impel EU consumers to do so.
And the Chinese government will be able to expand the provision of health services without having to pay for them, because consumers’ insurance will be available to pick up the tab.
Maintaining consumption at as high a level as possible is vital to reviving economic activity, which means that freeing money for consumers to spend is just as important.
But, relative to other forms of taxation, energy taxation tends to benefit consumers overall.
Keynes never tired of arguing that monetary policy becomes ineffective if uncertainty is sufficient to destabilize the expectations of consumers and investors.
Suboptimal storage conditions – which include, for example, prolonged exposure to sunlight and heat – can cause potent estrogenic activity in bottled water, exposing consumers to chemicals that alter the function of the endocrine system by mimicking the role of the body’s natural hormones.
When a product that is cheaper and better does not prevail, that is bad news for consumers.
According to the Boston Consulting Group, Chinese e-commerce platforms’ business models have evolved differently from those in the West, as they have responded to Chinese consumers’ rapidly increasing spending power and enthusiasm for innovation.
Another dilemma is that digitization is good for consumers, but possibly bad for employment and social stability.
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