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Furthermore, the idea that additional government spending, whether financed by taxation or borrowing, is bound to reduce private consumption by the same amount assumes that no flow of additional income results from the extra government spending – in other words, that the economy is already at full capacity.
As cities continue to grow and spread across the world, reducing energy consumption and improving our quality of life require us to ensure that their inhabitants can travel relatively short distances to workThe common expression in France that great rivers are created out of tiny streams captures the sort of strategy for countering global warming through sustainable development that I believe could be effective.
By imposing a stiff tax on energy consumption, Europeans would reduce both consumption of energy and its price in world markets, in turn cutting the flow of funds to Russia and Iran.
The country derives almost 76% of its energy needs from coal, burning almost 2.2 billion tons of it in 2005, with consumption set to rise to 2.6 billion tons by 2010.
Petroleum independent until 1993, China now consumes more and more imported petroleum every year, and power consumption is predicted to double by 2025, requiring an average of one new coal-fired plant to come on line each week.
While US Vice President Dick Cheney denigrates the idea of energy conservation, China’s leaders have adopted a new five-year plan that commits the country to cut energy use by one-fifth, industrial pollution by one-tenth, and industrial water consumption by one-third.
Government revenues depend on the value of domestic output, not only consumption.
The rebalancing of growth away from fixed investment and toward private consumption is occurring too slowly, because every time annual GDP growth slows toward 7%, the authorities panic and double down on another round of credit-fueled capital investment.
Our recent research demonstrates that such a “fiscal devaluation” has very similar effects on the economy in terms of its impact on GDP, consumption, employment, and inflation.
And, though age, sex, ethnicity, waist circumference, physical activity, smoking, and alcohol consumption all correlate with metabolic phenotypes, the BMI is unable to distinguish between the two groups.
Free-trade agreements that promise the greatest benefits are those that link economies characterized by high tariffs, low levels of trade, and little overlap in consumption and production patterns.
And, given similar per capita income levels and cultural orientations, overlaps in production and consumption are considerable.
Sustainable Consumption Through Better ChemistryLUDWIGSHAFEN,GERMANY – The chemical industry is committed to sustainable consumption.
In certain businesses,such as care chemicals (used for personal hygiene and home care and so forth),the figure can be much higher, depending on the market and the level of demand.But, even if the share of renewables were suddenly and dramatically increased, thiswould not necessarily produce the desired outcomes, because being “bio-based”is not intrinsically sustainable, and sustainable consumption does not involve onlyreplacing fossil with renewable feedstock.
For example, we believe that converting oil intospecial plastics for lighter-weight vehicles, thereby lowering fuel consumption,would make more sense than burning it as gasoline or diesel.
The move towardsustainable consumption must be realistic.
Achievingsustainable consumption requires global dialog all along the value chain.
This is not surprising, given the slowdown in consumption growth (car sales, for example, are suffering a prolonged decline).
And now that lower oil prices and a five-percentage-point drop in unemployment are bolstering consumption, the recovery is expanding to other sectors.
The zones could combine integrated rural development for domestic consumption and labor-intensive manufacturing and agro-businesses for export.
For starters, by increasing import prices and bolstering export sectors, a weaker renminbi would undermine the Chinese government’s goal of shifting away from export-led growth and toward a model based on higher domestic consumption.
Rich households also hold significant resources that could be deployed in support of both consumption and investment.
Instead, the current boom seems to be demand-led, with private consumption being the biggest driver, though private investment, too, is finally starting to rise.
The consumption share of China’s economy, at less than 35% of GDP, is the lowest of any major country.
The pace of job creation has increased, indicators for manufacturing and services have improved, and consumption spending has been stronger than anticipated.
The uptick in consumption in the last months of 2011 was financed by a decline in the household saving rate and a large increase in consumer credit.
And labor income is the most important component of household earnings, the major driver of consumption spending.
Hard-pressed American households slashed their savings rates, borrowed against their home equity, and increased their debt to maintain consumption, contributing to the housing and credit bubbles that burst in 2008, requiring painful deleveraging ever since.
But there remains substantial room for more consumption in luxury goods and technological products, as the purchasing power of the developing world’s middle class catches up to that in the advanced countries.
This convergence will contribute to more sustainable economic growth, with Asia’s economies rebalancing toward domestic demand, especially household consumption, and thereby becoming less vulnerable to external shocks.
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