Since that recovery will depend above all on net trade rather than consumption, it will be a cheerless one by recent standards.
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If you wanted to focus on investment, rather than consumption, he adds you could use the money to fund generous new investment allowances for UK businesses, instead.
They also funnel money into investment, rather than consumption, as PAYGO plans do, which, by making the economy more productive, can help ease the burden of paying for retired workers.
The goal of this kind of economy, rather than increasing consumption, is to improve quality of life.
The problem is that China's narrower surplus reflects an unsustainable rise in investment (as a share of GDP) rather than in consumption.
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Still, they note that factors not recorded in the surveys -- rather than chocolate consumption alone -- could have been responsible for some or all of the health benefits they observed.
While sales taxes are less economically destructive than income taxes, because they tax consumption rather than production, people produce to consume, so those sales taxes still reduce the reward for production, and hence the incentive.
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Most of us would prefer to gorge on food, appliances and clothes rather than delay our consumption.
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The benefits come from needing fewer jobs for a given level of consumption rather than more.
Taxing consumption rather than productivity would encourage saving and investment, in turn stimulating production and economic growth.
Chinese leaders are trying to nurture more self-sustaining growth based on domestic consumption rather than exports and investment.
The Chinese government at some point has to shift its policies to favor consumption rather than exports and full employment.
Most suggest some variety of a consumption tax, where the burden of taxation falls on consumption rather than on income.
For example, we could use an average of several years' income or, better yet, scale the AMaxT limit to consumption rather than income.
The McCain camp touts this tax cut, with some justification, as a middle-class tax cut that is a step towards taxing consumption rather than income.
Finance gushed into property and consumption rather than productive investment.
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The president should learn from China to shift some of the tax burden from lower income classes to wealthier people by increasing taxes on consumption rather than, as he has tried to do, on income.
Greenspan explains that because lower deficits will restore confidence, diminish the threat of inflation, and allow savings to flow to private-sector investment rather than public-sector consumption, the short-term pain will lead to gains both in the mid- and long-term.
For all the familiar signs of British economic frailty that are now making headlines, such as demand driven by consumption rather than investment, the biggest long-term worry is a different one: whether productivity growth, troublingly weak in the past few years, can revive.
Over and above this we get to the second point which is that on pure efficiency grounds we would rather tax property and consumption, possibly even incomes, rather than capital returns.
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Many believe China has to increase domestic consumption, rather than relying on investment in infrastructure projects and exports to fuel growth.
There has been movement over the last year toward using the browser rather than apps for tablet news consumption.
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Chinese government action thus far has notably been aimed at closing wet markets in major consumption markets rather than targeting inland breeding chicken areas.
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In part, this is to convince foreigners that Japan is serious about reviving domestic consumption, rather than relying on exports to get itself out of trouble.
Those who doubt that China is making the transition to an economy that is led by domestic consumption, rather than exports and government spending, should look closely at the recent data.
Tax consumption, rather than saving and investment.
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Thus consumption inequality is rather lower than market income measures would tell us.
Argentina will no doubt say that it measures consumption by the rich rather than the poor, who may not shop online.
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The reliance on self-reporting weight, height, activity, and soda consumption in some studies rather than independent measuring and verification might confound their reliability, as might small sample sizes.
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