Additionally, tightening policies in China and India will keep a lid on inflationary pressures in the US as those countries seek to spur internal consumption and demand.
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.
The willingness of households to pile up debt buttressed the growth in consumption and overall demand during the past few years.
Countries with external surpluses need to boost consumption and domestic demand.
Finally, this indirectly contributes to unemployed and underemployed people dropping consumption, and Main Street businesses lack of demand.
Russia has achieved this success not by coddling its job creators or by adopting radically free-market and business-friendly policies, but by supporting consumer demand, encouraging consumption, and loosening credit within the confines of its (deeply flawed) preexisting economic structures.
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The increasing demand for HD content for media consumption and rich formats such as HD DVD and Blu-Ray drives the demand for high capacity disk drives solutions in the end-user market.
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The decline is attributed to fears of weakening global demand, slowing private consumption and higher costs.
Other components of demand, such as consumption and construction, are recovering slowly, if at all.
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Japan's economy has been hurt by a dip in exports amid slowing global demand and subdued domestic consumption.
India's large population means that even a small increase in coffee consumption by individuals can affect global supply and demand for the commodity.
Higher prices for fresh fruits and vegetables, the demand for which is elastic, reduces consumption, so consumers get less of the antioxidant, vitamin and high-fiber benefits that these products afford.
The software analyzes the energy generation and consumption data and uses weather and other information to recommend actions that help match supply with demand closely.
Growing consumption for jewelry in India and China offset softer demand in Western nations.
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Statements such as "we need to boost demand" rarely carry caveats saying that demand (and the resulting consumption) should be "sustainable", or should take note of ecological concerns, or be equitable.
The bottom line for demand: Global consumption of oil and liquid fuels should increase by about 1.3 million barrels a day in the third quarter from the first quarter, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
If investment were to falter and private consumption failed to compensate, China would be left with a big hole in demand, jeopardising employment and growth.
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The ministry cited a decline in private sector investments and private consumption expenditure for dragging down total domestic demand.
As demand rises in China and protein consumption rises even faster, this requires the intensive growing of grains for both foods and for renewable energy.
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He says even with Spotify and other innovations that allow on demand consumption, still, people mostly want to hit a button, here some music, have it be low effort.
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Barack Obama's proposed American Jobs Act would reauthorise for another year current emergency unemployment benefits, which help to support consumption among the jobless, reducing poverty and propping up demand.
The demand for digital data creation and consumption is growing by estimates of 60% per year and this growth in content capacity requires not just more storage devices but faster interfaces to move that data around to where it is needed.
Recently, though, low natural gas prices and reduced electricity consumption due to the recession have dampened demand for wind.
This combination of feeble production and feverish consumption, the argument runs, means that demand for commodities will outpace supply for years to come.
Jewelry consumption meanwhile is declining by one third and is at the lowest demand level since 1990.
Higher temperatures, of course, create greater demand for air conditioning, which requires higher energy consumption and a deterioration in air quality.
"Experts in the oil industry have been saying for a number of years now that there is not enough oil left in the ground to continue our current level of consumption, not to mention no way to meet growing demand, and we can expect half as much oil available to us in the next 20 years, " said Andy Kunz, president and CEO of the rail association.
Westergren likes to say that 80 percent of music consumption is radio-style serendipitous listening and only 20 percent is on-demand, ie.
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The International Energy Agency lifted its demand forecast for next year and raised its projections for consumption to 2015, citing stronger US growth.
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