Gross value added is calculated at the level of branches of the economy as the value of output of goods and services less the value of intermediate consumption.
The average level of daily coffee consumption is slightly less than two cups, according to the study.
Higher prices for fresh fruits and vegetables, the demand for which is elastic, reduces consumption, so consumers get less of the antioxidant, vitamin and high-fiber benefits that these products afford.
Data centers and offices accounted for 1.2 million metric tons through the purchase of electricity, representing less than 0.01% of global electricity consumption, according to the company.
The resulting levels of private production and consumption will be less than is socially optimal.
While windmills cannot power cars directly, motor gasoline accounts for less than half of the consumption of petroleum products in America, so if wind reduces only non-vehicular use of petroleum it will still reduce reliance on petroleum products from the Middle East.
Without getting too much into the details of the report, basically, fewer orders equal less manufacturing demand which equals less oil consumption which equals lower oil prices and thus a weaker CAD.
As a result, consumption should take less of a knock from the downturn in the housing market.
Taxes are nothing more than a price, and if you raise the price of delaying consumption in favor of investment, you necessarily get less of it.
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Given current consumption of the metal, this is sufficient for only 13 years and less than that if CIGS technology takes-off.
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In addition, Hurricane Sandy temporarily curbed consumption in the northeastern part of the country, not only due to less driving but thousands of canceled airline flights, he added.
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Last year, China accounted for no less than one-third of the increase in world oil consumption.
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Consumption may also prove less important to the recovery than asserted in the warnings of another Great Depression.
Applications are becoming the center of user consumption and management (rightfully so) and compiled OS management is becoming less important.
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The more government forces everyone to save, the less additional consumption a worker will be able to enjoy from each additional hour of labour.
These sorts of conspicuous celebrations of consumption often seem less like life-altering rites, and more like the ultimate consumer experience.
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Although this plan does less than Mr McCain's to shift taxation from income towards consumption, the reduction of marginal tax rates could have a bigger effect on economic growth.
As part of its Digital Service Efficiency effort to reduce power consumption in its data centers, eBay slightly changed some of its software code so that the code would require less memory.
Quite unlike taxes on income that are paid no matter what, with a consumption tax individuals would be able to limit the amount of money handed to the government by virtue of spending less.
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Mr Greider chooses a global-crisis scenario, arguing among other things that the world is suffering from a shortage of consumption (an excess of saving) because workers in developing countries earn less than their productivity would indicate.
In other words, if the price of Chinese goods to American consumers increased by 21 percent (on average) and Americans reduced their consumption of Chinese goods by less than 21 percent, then demand would be considered inelastic, the price effect would dominate, and total import value would rise (adding to the trade deficit).
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Consumption grew a very strong 3.8% in Q1, so we expect something less in the rest of the year.
In the event, they have settled for banning sales of drink for less than the tax paid on it (alcohol duty, plus VAT, a consumption tax).
And it said that more cycling, alongside less meat consumption, would help reduce the costs to the health service and the economy more widely of Scotland's obesity problems.
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