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In any year, some households are savers and others, especially retirees, are dissavers that use past saving to finance current consumption.
But if households instead become optimistic about the pace of recovery, they might choose to cut back on their saving in order to maintain consumption, despite weak earnings.
The weak economy has caused people to postpone consumption of health-care services and has encouraged states and employers to restrain their spending on health.
Eventually, however, labor-intensive activities will move to countries at earlier stages of development, while China moves up the value chain, both in the export sector and, with rising incomes, in production for domestic consumption.
While recent reports indicate that growth in Asians’ fast-food consumption is slowing, the impact across the region is significant.
The Journal of Obesity reports that in India, as fast-food consumption – including sweetened carbonated drinks – has increased, so has the prevalence of obesity.
Friedman was one of the twentieth century’s leading economists, a Nobel Prize winner who made notable contributions to monetary policy and consumption theory.
Furthermore, consumption and investment are still down 12% and unlikely to recover that lost ground before 2020.
The biggest driver of growth in Spain over the last year has been increased private consumption, fueled by falling unemployment and rising real wages.
And, despite having less than 5% of the world’s population, the US accounts for more than three-quarters of global opioid consumption – leading to a surge in addiction rates and overdoses.
In some African countries, electricity consumption per capita is around 50 kilowatt-hours per year, compared with an average of 8,600 kilowatt-hours in the OECD countries.
By levying a tax on consumption at each stage of the production chain, America could reduce the overconsumption that helped feed the recent credit bubble, encouraging savings and investment instead.
He attributes, debatably, the entire problem to higher carbon emissions from cars, power plants, etc.Gore’s film would give the Europeans, always in danger of being marginalized at these meetings, the chance to boast about how they, unlike the Americans and Russians, are already doing their part by heavily taxing gas consumption.
If households and firms anticipate a tax increase in the future as a result of government borrowing today, they will reduce their consumption and investment accordingly.
This, together with the systematic “extraction” of consumer surplus, will have far-reaching macroeconomic implications, particularly through changes in private consumption patterns.
A global savings glut would suggest that rebalancing the world economy requires policies to boost America’s savings rate and to increase non-US households’ consumption.
In fact, China’s latest monthly data show signs of economic acceleration, especially in consumption.
Much has been made of domestic consumption as a driver of Chinese growth in the future.
But Justin Lin, a former World Bank chief economist, has argued forcefully that investment will and should remain a key growth driver, and that domestic consumption in China’s growth pattern should not be pushed beyond its natural limits into a high-leverage model based on rising consumer debt.
The right target for generating growth is domestic aggregate demand based on the right mix of consumption and high-return investment.
Second, a substantial share of the revenues should be invested in assets rather than used to boost consumption.
Cameroon, for example, has depleted much of its oil, using the revenues overwhelmingly for consumption.
As a result, its current level of consumption will be unsustainable when the oil runs out.
Finally, revenues should be open to public scrutiny and their efficient use, both for investment and consumption, must be ensured by institutional mechanisms that impose clear accountability on public officials.
Indeed, it has already created a detailed strategy to cut household gas consumption by more than half, with the goal of dispersing the corrupt gas monopoly of Naftogaz and ending Ukraine’s energy dependence on Russia.
Given this, it is worth asking whether the latest slogan adopted by Chinese officials – “Asia for Asians” – is merely nationalist posturing for domestic consumption or a signal of a genuine policy shift.
If global growth is to be sustainable and equitable, we will need to alter the balance between rapid urbanization and the unrelenting consumption of resources that it fuels.
That is why some economists are urging the ECB to go even further, with so-called “helicopter drops” – that is, financing private consumption by printing money.
In practice, helicopter drops would arrive in the form of lump-sum payments to households or consumption vouchers for everybody, funded exclusively by central banks.
Water consumption in the region is linked overwhelmingly to industrial agriculture.
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