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Women account for half of the global labor supply and about 70% of the world’s consumption demand.
This has been a by-product of the increase in real demand, achieved by reducing unemployment to a level at which rising wages contribute to faster price growth.
After such a long period of stagnation, people demand to see and feel changes for the better in their own lives.
But the messages demand attention, and we simply have to keep drilling.
In 2008, it seemed that Russia’s state-controlled energy giant Gazprom, benefiting from unprecedented growth in emerging-markets demand, led by China, might soon become the world’s largest corporation.
At around $30 a barrel, oil prices are remaining high even though a soft global economy means that world demand is low.
That means paying down debt and rebuilding savings, leaving consumer demand mired in protracted weakness.
Steeped in denial, the Federal Reserve is treating the disease as a cyclical problem – deploying the full force of monetary accommodation to compensate for what it believes to be a temporary shortfall in aggregate demand.
In other words, Americans have much farther to go on the road to balance-sheet repair – which hardly suggests a temporary, or cyclical, shortfall in consumer demand.
There is more: Once the demand problem is cured, according to this argument, companies will start hiring again.
Common-sense strategies – such as improving coordination among the plethora of ministries and departments that comprise the bureaucracy, and establishing accountable and empowered agencies to deliver results in high-priority areas – could go a long way toward meeting this demand.
Moreover, the manufacturing sector had become too dependent on US-driven export demand, and the population had become too dependent on remittances from emigrants working in the US.
Americans wanted additional demand for their goods and higher prices, while the Germans and Japanese defended their export industries.
At the same time, the war left enormous pent-up demand for the products of mass production: cars, washing machines, refrigerators, lawn mowers, television sets, and more.
China was the first to embrace change – committing to an economic rebalancing by shifting its growth model from external to internal demand, from exports and investment to private consumption.
This demand suggests that the US should subsidize the flow of technology to India and China from US firms holding patents, which is highly impractical.
The good news is that domestic demand continues to grow.
From the first quarter of 2008 through the second period of 2009, consumer demand fell for six consecutive quarters at a 2.2% annual rate.
Such an outcome would have three profound implications for the economic outlook: First, since consumer demand still accounts for 71% of real GDP, a protracted shortfall in trend consumption represents a major headwind for overall US economic growth.
The good news is that will force them to embrace long-overdue rebalancing strategies aimed at stimulating domestic consumer demand.
Deflation would weaken aggregate demand by raising the real (inflation-adjusted) value of household and corporate debt, and by increasing real interest rates.
Lower demand could, in turn, cause the fall in prices to accelerate, sending prices into a dangerous tailspin.
From a policy perspective, all 18 of the economies on our list have pursued pro-growth policies that encouraged a virtuous cycle of rising productivity, income, and demand.
A rebalanced China can grow more slowly for one simple reason: By drawing increased support from services-led consumer demand, China’s new model will embrace a more labor-intensive growth recipe.
If China fails to rebalance, weak external demand from a crisis-battered developed world will continue to hobble its export machine, forcing it to up the ante on a credit- and investment-led growth model – in effect, doubling down on resource-intensive and environmentally damaging growth.
Kempton and Budischak designed a computer model for wind, solar, and storage to meet demand for one-fifth of the US grid.
Because assistance does not rest on federal resources, but rather on the pooling of national resources, creditor states inevitably demand more power in exchange for providing more support to their neighbors.
The United Arab Emirates – where projected electricity demand will more than double by 2030 – is among the countries that are rising to the occasion.
But if those reserves mainly take the form of dollars, then their rising demand allows the United States to finance its external deficit at an artificially low cost.
They would pay a price, since investors in these bonds would initially demand a novelty premium.
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