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They gave a strong recommendation to include “interventions to reduce the consumption of alcohol and tobacco.”
The challenge facing the international community is thus to ensure adequate consumption of the right kinds of food.
Unsustainable production systems, combined with wasteful and excessive consumption in some regions of the world, have had serious consequences in terms of climate change, disease transmission, and nutritional balance.
We should bring food security to the starving without ignoring commercialization, agribusiness development, and the consumption and trade of higher-value food products – particularly because 60% of available uncultivated agricultural land is in Africa.
Bhutanese may bring into the country small quantities of cigarettes or tobacco from India for their own consumption, but not for resale – and they must carry the import-tax receipt with them any time they smoke in public.
Removing them would increase consumption of all goods, including imports.
But taking need into account does nothing to assist Trump’s case that the US was unfairly treated by the Paris accord, because Americans could easily cut back on luxuries like vacation travel, air conditioning, and meat consumption, whereas less affluent countries need to industrialize to lift their populations out of depths of poverty unknown in the US.
If the US were to raise taxes on domestic consumption, it would collect more revenue from imports, which would allow the government to cut income taxes stemming from US firms’ domestic and foreign sales.
With higher incomes, rising meat consumption requires more grain for animal feed.
The stagnation of incomes in the bottom 75% of the distribution presents an especially large challenge, because it depresses consumption, undermines social cohesion (and thus political stability and effectiveness), and decreases intergenerational mobility – especially where public education is poor.
In the US, a lingering overhang of household debt implies that deleveraging and the rebuilding of savings continues to take precedence over discretionary consumption.
It artificially props up consumption growth and allows the government to defer hard choices between taxes and military expenditures.
The culprit is a large saving deficit;The country has been living beyond its means for decades and drawing freely on surplus saving from abroad to fund the greatest consumption binge in history.
Instead, US politicians continue to focus on keeping the consumption binge going, regardless of its implications for America’s saving imperative.
After all, the enablers – especially export-led economies like China, along with its resource-dependent supply chain – benefited from America’s consumption binge, as it drove an outsize expansion of global trade.
Recognizing that some “frictional” poverty will inevitably persist over the next two decades, the World Bank’s formal target is to reduce the percentage of people living below the poverty line – defined as daily consumption of less than $1.25 (in purchasing-power-parity terms) per person – to less than 3%.
For example, while capitalism depends on investment and consumption, an excess of the former leads to production gluts, and too much of the latter causes economies to overheat.
In the end, short-term bank lending became excessive and was used to finance a splurge on real-estate investment and consumption, while inflation took hold.
China has undertaken a nationwide campaign to reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by 20% by 2010, and will hold local officials accountable for achieving the targets.
The Ethics of EatingGlobal meat consumption is predicted to double by 2020.
The consumption of veal has fallen sharply since it became widely known that to produce so-called “white” – actually pale pink – veal, newborn calves are separated from their mothers, deliberately made anemic, denied roughage, and kept in stalls so narrow that they cannot walk or turn around.
But more than higher growth in income from labor will be needed to boost Chinese private consumption.
But the emphasis on the Chinese consumer is likely to be the new Plan’s defining feature – sufficient, in my opinion, to boost private consumption as a share of Chinese GDP from its current rock-bottom reading of around 36% to somewhere in the 42-45% range by 2015.
Indeed, the 12th Five-Year Plan is likely to spark the greatest consumption story in modern history.
Sales taxes vary, and are augmented by “octroi” taxes on cross-border shipments of goods destined for local consumption.
With the private sector in free fall, consumption and investment would decline sharply.
A steep hike in the consumption tax in 2014, together with another hike expected in the near future, has undermined household spending.
As in the Nintoku story, it is the wealth of the people – not that of the government – that dictates consumption.
Others did so because the banks, shocked by the collapse of the securitization business, stopped giving them home-equity loans for consumption purposes.
To maintain growth, over-spending countries need nominal and real depreciation to improve trade balances, while surplus countries need to boost domestic demand, especially consumption.
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