The increase in consumption could be tenuous as unemployment continues to rise and home prices continue to fall.
The city often experiences power shortages in winter because of an increase in consumption as well as power theft.
But Mr Poterba says even this suggests an increase in consumption that is small by comparison with the increase in household stockmarket wealth.
While the increase in consumption by no means indicates an economy that will definitely avoid a recession, it does suggest deflation could be avoided.
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Without brand advertising to maintain market share the increased availability of cheap imports and smuggled tobacco products may well give rise to an increase in consumption.
India's GDP growth in the current fiscal year and the next is likely to be supported by an increase in consumption and investments, the World Bank said.
If allowed into the marketplace, the AquAdvantage salmon, as it is called, could lead to lower salmon prices and an increase in consumption of salmon, a heart-healthy food, researchers say.
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Punditry has it that the rise is because of the enormous increase in consumption by China, and it is a fact that the expansion of its economy and its copper consumption are highly correlated.
The increase in internal consumption in China is being done in an orderly and planned way so that large deficits are not built.
If the cigarette market goes the same way as hand-rolling tobacco, then increases in duty could actually result in an increase in overall consumption as well as a fall in revenues.
For too long, there has been a presumption that an increase in demand for energy services must lead to an increase in energy consumption.
"Given the increase in sweet beverage consumption in Europe, clear messages on its deleterious effect on health should be given to the population, " Dr Romaguera and colleagues conclude in their research paper.
The burden should be distributed broadly, mainly through an increase in the consumption tax.
U.S. food exports to China require an 18% per year increase in water consumption.
He also saw that rising incomes in China meant an increase in seafood consumption there.
To realize objectives 3. and 4, a five percentage point increase in the consumption tax is appropriate.
This would produce savings of about JPY 5.5 trillion, equivalent to a 2.5 percentage point increase in the consumption tax.
The most important question is: how to use proceeds of an increase in the consumption tax (currently 5 percent)?
It should continue to benefit from the increase in private consumption.
Even if a 5 percent increase in the consumption tax were proposed and adopted, this action would raise only some JPY 12.5 trillion.
India's large population means that even a small increase in coffee consumption by individuals can affect global supply and demand for the commodity.
Ian O'Donnell, of University College Dublin, blames the increase on migration (labourers coming back from London), growing social inequality, and a rapid increase in beer consumption.
It's a goal the government supports, according to its twelfth five-year plan (2011-2015), which calls for an increase in domestic consumption and growth of the service sector by four percentage points.
The most important task of this Diet session, he said, is to approve an increase in the consumption tax from the current 5 percent to 10 percent within the next four years.
Tourism accounts for an estimated 10% increase in wood consumption, according to the Nepalese government, which leads to an estimated 240 million cubic metres of mountain topsoil lost on Everest every year, further triggering forest depletion.
Although high-income economies can sustain GDP growth with little increase in energy consumption, this is not the case in low- and middle-income economies, which have historically seen energy demand grow in tandem with per capita income growth.
Researchers say the reason for the surge is partly because Americans are getting older and fatter, and possibly because of the country's decline in physical activity and some undefined changes in the American diet such as an increase in fat consumption.
Even without considering the additional sustainability benefits to be achieved from the scale and efficiency of commercial data centres, or the proactive monitoring of energy usage, private data centres can potentially quadruple utilisation to 80 per cent with only a 50 per cent increase in power consumption.
Since the old, who have shorter time horizons, have larger propensities to consume than do the young, this transfer has fueled a huge increase in personal consumption, reducing our national saving rate (saving as a share of national income) from 10 to 15% in the 1950s and 60s to a negative 1.5% last year.
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