World meat consumption is expected to increase at an annual rate of 2 percent until 2015.

全世界的肉类消费有可能在2015年之前以年均2%的速度增长。

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His crucial revenue-raising decision was to increase the main rate of VAT, a consumption tax, from 17.5% to 20% in January 2011.

他增加收入的重大决定是，从2011年1月开始，把增值税(消费税)的主税率从17.5%提高到20%。

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However, in 2010 the investment rate will be decreasing, with the export hard to increase and the consumption going up.

2010年投资率将下降、出口难增长、消费应继续上升。

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Legislation to increase the country's rate of consumption tax, enacted last August, states that the government must try to achieve nominal economic growth of about 3 per cent and real growth of about 2 per cent -- implying inflation of about 1 per cent -- before going ahead with the tax hikes.

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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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His crucial revenue-raising decision was to increase the main rate of VAT, a consumption tax, from 17.5% to 20% in January 2011.

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