Again, without a culture specific, consumption specific account of risk, the claim is meaningless, a product of the arbitrary weightings of the risk model.
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Investment and consumption each now account for around 50% of China's GDP.
Rate cuts could potentially widen the current-account deficit by encouraging consumption and boosting demand for imported goods.
Rate cuts could potentially widen the current account deficit by encouraging consumption and boosting demand for imported goods.
Hence, a large current-account deficit that fuels consumption (as in Mexico in the early 1990s) or a property-price bubble (as in Thailand until last year) may be a problem.
The spokesman said unleaded petrol and diesel supplies, which account for 95% of consumption, would be unaffected.
But China's current account was already in surplus when the investment slowdown started, and is rising faster than it did a decade ago, so if and when the effects feed through to consumption, the change in the current account could be much bigger than last time.
Now these countries account for a third of world consumption in commodities such as copper.
So if by fairness we mean targeting a certain benefit from consumption, it seems federal taxes need to account for geographic disparities.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that the use of soybean B100, which is 100 percent biodiesel, in urban transit buses reduces net carbon dioxide emissions by 78 percent and reduces lifecycle petroleum consumption by 95 percent, which takes into account fuel required to cultivate crops, refine and transport the biodiesel.
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But biofuels could account for 30% of all fuel consumption by 2020, some sources predict.
The U.S. and China each import one-half of their oil requirements, and together account for 35 percent of global petroleum consumption.
According to a European target that Britain has signed up to, renewables will account for 15% of total energy consumption by 2020, up from 3% today.
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But reducing the price of drugs to zero for roughly 11m elderly will surely result in increased consumption, which the campaign fails to take into account.
Plug loads account for 15% of all residential electricity consumption and 20% of commercial consumption.
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In total, cities house more than half the world's population, and account for two-thirds of its energy consumption and over 60% of its greenhouse-gas emissions.
Currently, biofuels account for just 2% of all fuel consumption.
So Mr Cunningham's move will mainly affect the Germans, whose 6, 000 tonnes of beef exports to Britain so far this year account for only about 1% of British consumption.
Fisheries account for 1.2% of global oil consumption and emit more than 130m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.
Data centers account for about 1.5% of total electricity consumption in the United States, according to a 2007 report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Although over three-fifths of the world's population live in Asia, they only account for just over one-fifth of global private consumption, much less than America's 30% share.
Renewable energy proponents dream of the days when wind, solar and other clean sources of electricity will account for over half of the U.S. power consumption.
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It does not take into account the money he may have made within Mexico, where consumption has been rising or in Europe, which is reportedly receiving a growing number of shipments from Latin American cartels via the Caribbean or West Africa.
Private automobiles now account for more than half of all U.S. oil consumption, and the transportation sector as a whole uses almost three-quarters.
The CBO, when it looked at this and weighed these different factors, came to the conclusion, which I think is a sensible conclusion, that extending unemployment benefits provides the biggest bang for the buck in terms of strengthening consumption in the economy and creating jobs, taking all of those factors into account.
Its current-account surplus has narrowed largely because of an increase in domestic investment, not consumption.
Although the researchers took into account a wide range of extenuating factors, including diet and exercise regimens, smoking, alcohol consumption, body mass index, and marital status, it's possible that people who drink coffee differ from the rest of the population in as-yet unidentified ways that make them less vulnerable to disease and early death.
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