China has the challenges of moving from an export-led to a domestic demand-led economy.
Shadow universities and skills secretary David Willetts said he completely agreed with the government that a demand-led and employer-driven system was needed.
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China needs to reorient its economic strategy away from a traditional reliance on net export-led growth to a domestic demand-led growth strategy.
The British Hospitality Association (BHA) said the hotel industry fully supports the Olympic Games but it is demand-led and prices reflect demand.
Unlike previous recessions since the second world war, which were mostly demand-led, this one reflects a credit and investment bust that will take longer to work through the system.
It is one of the most powerful instruments, perhaps the most powerful instrument, that China has at its disposal in the near term to both counter inflationary pressures, which is a very high priority for them, and also to shift to domestic, demand-led growth.
For those who have some policy space about letting automatic stabilizers do their work, about using discretionary measures, you will see good language in there, again, about how those surplus economies really need to take concrete actions to shift to more domestic demand-led growth, including by using exchange rates, but also by using domestic measures.
But much to renters' chagrin--and landlords' delight--greater demand has led to higher rents.
Within manufacturing, export-led demand continued to improve but was less able to offset a decline in Scottish and rest of UK orders.
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But the company noted that Q3 orders were hurt by weak near-term LED industry demand.
China Unicom at the end of last year, and reports claimed that overwhelming demand had led to stock sell-outs within hours.
It also says it will steer the economy away from export-led growth towards domestic demand.
Councillor Marianne Brighton of the Conservative-led council said the demand for social housing is rising.
On the demand side, it could promote market-led efficiency by encouraging real-time metering of all electricity use.
That prompted some market uncertainty and led to safe-haven demand for gold and silver.
The Congress-led government initially refused the demand but agreed later after its allies pledged support in the event of a parliamentary vote.
Much of this was the result of ongoing economic weakness in the developed world, although elevated local silver prices also led to lower demand in price-sensitive markets such as India, the report said.
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Japan's five-year-old recovery is led by domestic demand, they say, and by business investment in particular.
Samsung's shipments of flat panel TVs outstripped market growth of more than 10 percent on-quarter, which was led by demand in emerging markets.
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Third, despite the recent pick-up in global economic activity, Japan cannot count on foreign demand being strong enough for it to sustain export-led growth, as it did in the past decade.
With the demand from the backlight market nearing saturation and the general lighting market yet to take off, growth in demand has been slow, resulting in a huge demand-supply gap that has put pressure on the average LED selling price.
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Gartner's data suggests weakening demand for feature phones - lower-end devices with limited functionality - led to the drop.
Weather also appears to have been a key factor, as a tough winter led to a strong release of pent-up demand at the start of spring.
Also, if you eliminate the excess credit that fueled excess demand in rich countries, by definition you do away with the demand itself and with a substantial portion of China's export-led growth.
The company said global demand for flat-panel TVs and digital devices had weakened, though sales of LED lighting and in-car equipment had grown.
"Sustained demand for the iPad Mini and increasingly strong commercial shipments led to a better-than expected first quarter for Apple, " said IDC's Tom Mainelli.
This increase in demand saw Samsung increase its portion of LED TV sales from the mid 60-percent range to a mid 80-percent share, quarter-on-quarter.
This has led to a spike in demand, which has actually shifted toward higher-grade fuel, while at the same time cramping investment.
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Export-led growth works well in a world where the price elasticity of demand for the exported goods is effectively infinite, where any decrease in costs will always lead to an expansion in sales.
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