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Prior to the crisis, the wealth effect produced by high asset prices mitigated downward pressure on consumption, just as low interest rates and quantitative easing since 2008 have produced substantial gains in asset prices that, given weak economic performance, probably will not last.
Eventually, these structural shifts will offset a lower (and more sustainable) level of consumption relative to income, unless inappropriate increases in domestic demand short-circuit the process.
But the currency appreciation that follows will likely set off an unsustainable consumption boom, wreak havoc with your export sector, create unemployment, and sap your growth potential.
It stimulates production (and hence employment), unlike overvaluation, which stimulates consumption.
There are other instruments available for increasing domestic saving and reducing consumption besides the fiscal balance.
Even more importantly, policies can discourage foreign-borrowing-led consumption booms by taxing capital inflows (Chilean-style) or increasing financial intermediaries’ liquidity requirements.
If all households curbed their expenditures, total consumption would fall, and so, too, would demand for labor.
The particular case that John Maynard Keynes identified was the “paradox of thrift”: if everyone tries to save more in bad times, aggregate demand will fall, lowering total savings, because of the decrease in consumption and economic growth.
And if all countries pursue austerity simultaneously, lower demand for each country’s goods will lead to lower domestic and foreign consumption, leaving all worse off.
Indeed, it seems unlikely that governments in China and similar emerging markets can compensate swiftly enough to boost domestic consumption.
There are important differences between the structure of the Japanese and the US economies, including the enormously high level of liquid assets held by Japanese households, which tends to lead to lower consumption when interest rates fall.
On the contrary, this aggression, clearly staged for domestic political consumption, will harm Israel’s long-term security.
As a result, annual plastics consumption worldwide has increased from five million tons in the 1950’s to around 280 million tons today.
Closed-loop recycling, in which plastics waste is used to make another product, thus carries significant environmental benefits, such as reduced energy and oil consumption.
Increasing the proportion of re-used plastics is a crucial step toward more sustainable plastics consumption.
In a world that is reliant on plastics, more sustainable production, consumption, and disposal of plastic products is crucial.
After all, the real reason that Keynesian thinking took hold was that its method of calculating aggregate consumption, investment, and savings proved invaluable for American and British military planning during World War II.
With consistent national accounting, governments could make better use of resources, divert production from civilian to military purposes, and curtail inflationary pressures, thereby maintaining consumption and staving off civil unrest.
The same tools turned out to be just as useful in reorienting the post-war economy toward higher household consumption.
Integrated assessments of subsoil assets, groundwater, and biosphere integrity would also help, as would guidelines for sustainable resource consumption.
Part of the answer lies in free market reforms undertaken in America, Britain and parts Europe, that made them more competitive by shifting the balance of power from labour and consumption to capital and investment.
Commentary examining growth in Chinese private consumption as a share of GDP, or potential changes to the hukou system, will be far more edifying than that devoted to the personality and ambition of Xi Jinping.
The solution is relatively simple, provided the presence of political will: By putting a price on carbon and repealing policies that incentivize fossil-fuel consumption, investments can be channeled into the creation of a low-carbon economy, including the necessary clean-energy infrastructure.
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.
After evaluating the technologies, policy options, and analysis included in the report, one might conclude that low-carbon growth paths may be slightly flatter in the short term than their high-carbon counterparts, with higher investment and lower consumption.
For 150 years, until 2010, the West (America and Europe) was responsible for the majority of global output, manufacturing, trade, investment, and consumption.
As a result, the consumption share of the Chinese economy could increase by at least five percentage points of GDP by 2015.
But, by raising the consumption share of its GDP, China will also absorb much of its surplus saving.
If you examine actual household consumption rather than changes in crude indexes of real wages, which do not give a picture of shortages in the old regimes, living standards have held their own.
During the era of Ponzi-style growth, capital flows were channeled by commercial banks into a frenzy of consumption and by the state into an orgy of suspect procurement and outright profligacy.
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