The problem in Brazil is not so much currency appreciation, but how its consumption based economic model interacts with a strong currency, says Tony Volpon, head of Latin America research at Nomura in New York.
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If a consumption-based tax reform like this had been passed in 2000, North Carolina would be an entirely different place.
The short-term tactics are losing their effectiveness, and this means the transition to a consumption-based economy will be especially difficult.
In place of the old taxes, the reform calls for a new consumption-based tax system, largely via expanding and slightly increasing the state sales tax.
The proponents of consumption-based stimuli overlook the essentiality of saving.
For retirement wonks, Banerjee presents detailed consumption numbers based on data collected in the long-running Health and Retirement Study, administered by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
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We will most likely see international trade decline further until China embarks upon the path to becoming a service and consumption-based economy at which point the West will begin to export in a big way.
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Intel (15, INTC) has all but dispatched Advanced Micro Devices as a serious competitor in computers, and now with its Atom line of tiny, low-power-consumption chips based on the x86 architecture, is moving into netbook computers, mobile Internet devices and a wide range of other consumer gadgets.
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Obviously, funding the basic pension through the broad-based consumption tax would lower the burden on active workers and employing firms.
The top 10 new food and beverage products thrived on home-based consumption.
But any broad-based consumption tax will generate roughly the same pattern.
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The ultimate in energy efficiency will come when power producers can turn on and off small substations at a moments notice based on real-time data on energy consumption at a household level, and consumers can make power purchasing decision based on real-time metering of their consumption.
It is a low-power consumption, radio-based system which allows devices to communicate with each other wirelessly.
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If the rate were based on consumption, poverty would be halved.
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The end goal is to provide natural human control over TV-based media consumption, said Berenson, who's working to get cameras in TVs themselves sometime late next year.
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Chinese leaders are trying to nurture more self-sustaining growth based on domestic consumption rather than exports and investment.
Inventories for coal, copper and iron ore as well as oil are too high based on current consumption.
However, I wonder how many people make purchase decisions based on energy consumption.
Coffee drinking was categorized based on daily consumption: less than a cup (or none), 1-2 cups, 3-4 cups, and more than 4 cups.
We graded each country based on alcohol consumption per capita, legal restrictions on drinking, diseases resulting from alcohol abuse, and whether drinking habits, such as binge drinking or drinking in public places, are especially risky.
In 2007, GDP grew an estimated 6.5%, based on rising private consumption, a jump in corporate investment, and EU funds inflows.
He sees a scalable, long-term growth story based on the rising consumption of fast food, strong brands that cater to local tastes, a dominant market position at home, strong cash flow and strong management.
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Samsung's Magic Eco feature allows users to adjust a monitor's brightness based on different energy consumption levels with four preset energy-saving options to choose from: 100 percent, 75 percent, 50 percent, and Power-Saving Off.
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We allowed too much of our prosperity to be based on fleeting bubbles of consumption and risk and artificial gain.
Acer will aggressively yet cautiously develop data-consumption products, tablet PCs and smartphones based on the solid foundation of the main PC business.
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And part of it has to do with the fact that we had become the growth engine for the world based on accumulating debt and consumption.
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Branko Milanovic, lead economist for the World Bank research group, sent me this comparative analysis based on household income or consumption surveys worldwide, adjusted for purchasing power differences.
People like Steve Roach were worried about an economy based on asset bubbles leading to consumption bubbles that were unsustainable.
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Energy consumption would drop by 80 percent since memory-based systems consume less energy and require fewer air conditioners.
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