Turns out the collaborative consumption model operates as a great mechanism for product trial as well.
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Happily, any brand, ad, media platform, or consumer consumption model can be measured for engagement in this manner.
Some commentators feel that the Chinese investment boom must eventually run out of steam, whether for lack of good projects to finance or because the country will shift to a more consumption-led model.
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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Government investment is taking the economy away from a consumption-led growth model, the only sustainable way forward.
And state spending is taking China even further away from the only sustainable growth model, a consumption-led one.
Fully mature Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software along with energy market integration that has a detailed model of power consumption, cooling, and the ability to manage servers, turning them on or off or putting them in a lower power state, completes the picture and enables the full benefit of a software defined data center to be realized.
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We clearly need a new model of production and consumption if economic development is to continue on a global scale.
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Among the next newspapers to go, experts say, are major metropolitan dailies relying on an expensive business model that requires costly newsprint consumption and gas-guzzling deliveries.
Still, the company says overall fuel consumption's been reduced over the last model and you'll get other niceties like Porsche's Car Connect smartphone app to view and control different vehicle functions.
In the long term, growth in emerging economies will be contingent on their ability to innovate and shift away from an externally driven growth model to one fueled in part by local consumption.
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On China, Soros says the country has to change its economic model from depending on export-led growth to consumption-led growth, and that that transition is already underway.
But some economists stress that the focus on consumption as a measure of economic growth can be misleading, arguing that a model that is not based on production cannot be sustainable.
They read the foreign press like anyone else, and they know the case that is made against them: namely that Germany deluded itself for years that it was a model of virtue because it was an export champion, offsetting relatively weak domestic consumption linked to wage restraint and high savings rates.
Five model McDonald's restaurants have been built with additional energy-saving features, reducing consumption by 10 percent to 15 percent.
For China to find a more stable growth model, most experts agree that the country needs to balance its investments by promoting greater consumption.
Gone is the low value-added export model, and in its place is an economy increasingly dependent on its own people and their consumption.
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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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It is struggling to shift China away from the current unsustainable model, where growth is propelled by vast investment and export-led manufacturing, towards one where domestic consumption plays a bigger role.
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