With Hispanics driving population and economic consumption growth, relating to this segment is critical, but this realization is not enough .
This means we have to increase public awareness about the harmful consequences of biodiversity loss, integrate biodiversity preservation into development policies, phase out government subsidies that are harmful to biodiversity, and incorporate biodiversity preservation into our economic and consumption models.
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Known best as the guiding metric of the Himalayan nation of Bhutan, GNH tracks not merely economic output and consumption, but factors like access to health care, education and nature, and evolves based on continuous input from citizens.
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We clearly need a new model of production and consumption if economic development is to continue on a global scale.
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The economic rewrite has lowered consumption growth for 2005 from 1.7%, the slowest since 1995, to 1.3%, the slowest since 1992.
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The problem in Brazil is not so much currency appreciation, but how its consumption based economic model interacts with a strong currency, says Tony Volpon, head of Latin America research at Nomura in New York.
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However, there is no economic reason to favor increased consumption among stockholders.
The government subsidies are aimed at increasing domestic consumption to diversify economic growth that has previously relied heavily on exports and infrastructure spending.
As I discuss in my book, New Emerging Japanese Economy: Opportunity and Strategy for World Business, the Japanese government shifted its economic priorities from exports to consumption and imports.
One thing for sure, though, if this trend does continue, it suggests that consumers are retrenching, not a good sign for an economy where 70% of economic growth is dependent on consumption.
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As a result of very specific changes to the economic activity and corresponding energy consumption levels, a more granular analyses will be required than is previously provided by traditional load forecasting methods.
In addition, as I discussed in my book, New Emerging Japanese Economy: Opportunity and Strategy for World Business, Japan shifted its economic priorities from exports to consumption and imports that eventually yielded the desired results.
Higher taxes on capital gains and dividends, abstracting from issues of equity and fairness, reduce real economic growth, cause weaker consumption and decreases in business capital spending, reduce employment, and labor force growth, and help bring about less potential output.
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Collaborative consumption — the economic idea of trading or renting access to products — has seen a rise in popularity, especially amongst women, and especially as the 2008 recession left even the affluent looking for deals and ways to cut back on household spending.
The global economic downturn, declining exports, and low domestic consumption and fixed asset accumulation, dampened by government austerity measures, resulted in an economic contraction of 6.8% in 2009.
And Latin Americans are aware that for their countries the overall costs of the drug trade—in violence, corruption and rising drug consumption—outweigh any economic benefit.
Airlines find themselves in a difficult situation, having to juggle high gasoline prices with low pricing power given the weak state of consumption in a fragile economic environment.
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But driving down the value of its currency--one of Chinese officialdom's principal responses to the global economic crisis--inevitably depresses consumption, which accounts for just 35% of the Chinese economy.
It is also possible that it is growing economic optimism that drives up both consumption and share prices, rather than share prices driving up spending: if people feel better about the future, they may both consume more and value shares more highly.
Thus, if Congress taxes consumption, those down the economic food chain will inevitably pay more in taxes.
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Housing, though an essential good, is ultimately an item of consumption as opposed to an economic stimulant.
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This economic growth will result in more oil consumption in two ways.
Household-consumption growth has powered the economic expansion of the past few years.
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