Sentences with phrase «by household consumption»

Hungary (now A3) is demonstrating lively economic activity, supported by household consumption and renewed investments due to flexible credit conditions and EU aid.

Not exact matches

Moderate household consumption will be mostly offset by a decline in business investment.

That period of reflection appears to have emboldened Poloz's conviction in the story he's been telling from the start: that international sales of manufactured goods and services would lead a rotation away from the economy's reliance on high commodity prices and consumption by heavily indebted households.

«There was still a risk that growth in consumption might turn out to be weaker than forecast if household income growth were to increase by less than expected.»

- to lower public buildings» energy consumption by 40 per cent, commercial buildings» by 20 per cent, and household consumption by 10 per cent;

First, there are several categories of spending by households that are lumped into the personal consumption expenditures category in our official GDP statistics that can fairly be counted as investment.

This reflects changes in the prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by urban households.

First, because they represented a transfer from net savers to net borrowers, they helped to exacerbate the split between the growth in household income (households are net savers) and the growth in GDP (which is generated by net borrowers), and so led directly to the extraordinary imbalance in the Chinese economy in which consumption, as a share of GDP, has declined to perhaps the lowest level ever recorded in history.

Over time this means that households will retain a growing share of China's total production of goods and services (at the expense of the elite, of course, who benefitted from subsidized borrowing costs) and so not only will they not be hurt by a sharp fall in GDP growth, but their consumption will increasingly drive growth and innovation in China.

But closing down unnecessary capacity can pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing debt to rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of demand which is likely to be more labor intensive than the demand created in the process of over-capacity.

Historically, household consumption has increased by roughly 0.2 percent for every one percentage point increase in household debt.

Historically whenever global demand is weak, and unemployment high, countries will try to gain a larger share of that demand by reducing wages or otherwise taxing households to subsidize production (devaluing the currency is just a way to tax the consumption of imports and to subsidize exporters).

The speed with which China's GDP growth slows in 2013 will tell us a lot about how determined Beijing is to rebalance the economy in such a way that growth is driven more by higher household income and consumption and less by investment funded by rising government and government - related debt.

Spain's household savings rate fell to its lowest level on record in the third quarter of last year as high unemployment and wage deflation in the latest recession obliged them to devote more of their disposable income to consumption, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

The pick - up in consumption in the March quarter appears to be continuing and is being supported by further increases in consumer confidence; household spending increased by 2 1/2 per cent in the June quarter and consumer confidence is now at its highest level in 4 years (Graph 3).

In the September quarter, household consumption rose by 1.1 per cent, a slight increase from the pace in the June quarter, but less than might have been expected given the boost to incomes from the budget measures.

Domestic demand was up by 6.8 per cent over the year, with household consumption, residential investment and business investment all growing rapidly.

The joint venture, by affiliates of GLP and Brookfield, intends to install 300 megawatts of rooftop solar projects over the next three years, with a broader one - gigawatt development pipeline, equivalent to the annual power consumption of approximately 750,000 households.

In China, this has been the case since 2011, with total household consumption spending growing on average faster than overall GDP by 1.5 percentage points each year.

The recent step - up in growth has been underpinned by strong household consumption, which rose by 1.6 per cent in the September quarter, propelled by a sharp increase in disposable income flowing from recent fiscal initiatives.

In contrast to IMF loans to support the kleptocrats» banks and new Cold War asset grabs from the Eastern border provinces with Russia, Ukraine's sale of bonds to Russia's sovereign debt fund and its contracts signed for gas purchases were negotiated by a democratically elected government, at prices that subsidized domestic industry and also household consumption.

While most of this borrowing has been used to finance the acquisition of dwellings, including by investors, households have also increased their borrowing to finance consumption.

Consumption was also supported by an increase in household net wealth in the December quarter of 4.2 per cent, driven by a substantial increase in the value of equities and rapid growth in house prices.

Against this backdrop, we maintain our scenario of a strengthening cyclical recovery, with euro area GDP growing at around 1.8 % this year and next, above potential, on the back of rising domestic demand (household consumption and investment) fuelled by bank credit.

However, household consumption increased by just 5.17 per cent at the top of 2013, a shift down form the 5.36 per cent posted in the last quarter of 2012, he mentioned.

reducing phosphorus losses from crop spillages, non-edible crop by - products, and wastage during food processing, retail and household food consumption

Avocados have long been a staple in our household, and after naptime today we'll up our daily consumption by serving some friends the easiest and best guacamole recipe ever.

Mean and standard errors of monthly weight gain after adjusting for maternal age; race / ethnicity; education; household income; marital status; parity; postpartum Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children program participation; prepregnancy body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared); infant sex; gestational age; birth weight; age at solid food introduction; and sweet drinks consumption.

The IET agrees and emphasises the role that households will in future be able to play by voluntarily shifting a part of their consumption away from peak times, facilitated by the smart metering system.

The LEAP programme is cash transfer being implemented by the Department of Social Welfare under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MOGCSP), aimed at reducing poverty by increasing consumption and promoting access to services and opportunities among the extreme poor and vulnerable households, elderly persons 65 years and above without any support and severely disabled persons without any productive capacity and recently, the extremely poor pregnant women and children under 2 years old.

The researchers estimated that adding energy storage to a household with solar panels increases its annual energy consumption by about 324 to 591 kilowatt - hours.

The results reveal that, after a comparison at national level, the vast number of substances tested show a clearly higher average consumption — thus more contaminant emissions — by private households than health care facilities.

In 2008, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District tried to reduce household energy consumption by issuing bills that compared customer's energy use to their neighbors.

In a second step, the researchers compared the average of the three - year total consumption of these drugs by health - care establishments with the total annual consumption of selected substances by German households.

Results from the implementation of the same basic program, adapted to a wide variety of geographic and institutional contexts and with multiple implementing partners, show statistically significant cost - effective impacts on consumption (fueled mostly by increases in self - employment income) and psychosocial status of the targeted households.

A modern conservative columnist, Kate O'Beirne, writing in the National Review, has questioned the value of food stamps, school breakfasts and lunches, and the WIC programs (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children): «With rates of excess weight and obesity highest among low - income households, budget officials should be asking themselves why tens of billions of dollars are being spent each year by federal nutrition programs aimed at boosting food consumption by the poor.»

Results from L.E.K. Consulting's second annual «Hidden Opportunities in New Media Survey» of more than 2,000 households showed an explosion of e-reader purchases by a consumer segment that is significantly increasing its new media consumption.

However, this expansion of the capital - goods sectors isn't counterbalanced by a shrinking of the consumption - goods sectors, the way it would be if households actually started saving more.

The bank still expects growth to resume in the latter half of the year, led by business investments and household spending, but warned that investment and consumption growth will slow due to less wealth and lower income.

More importantly, says a Harvard study, «The current rate spread is an important influence on mortgage choice, as would be implied by a model in which borrowing - constrained households seek low rates in order to maintain the level of current consumption, or to increase the size of the house they can buy when constrained by bank limitations on mortgage interest - to - income ratios.»

It represents consumption expenditure by households in Australian metropolitan areas.

In short we may be in the position of trying to determine if a kitchen stove boils water by measuring the humidity in the living room versus household natural gas consumption.

Anyway, I got around to reducing our household water consumption by about half, without hardly noticing any difference in lifestyle, and saving $ $ $ in water bills and gas (to heat the water) bills.

One that wasn't paywalled, The Influence of Urban Form on GHG Emissions in the U.S. Household Sector, showed that «doubling population - weighted density is associated with a reduction in CO2 emissions from household travel and residential energy consumption by 48 % and 35 %, respectively.»

They have a few other sustainability projects already going on there, like a grey and black water recycled program designed to reduced household water consumption by 50 %.

It adds that job losses would be minimal; the new carbon market would create new jobs; that the manufacturing sector will lose a few jobs; that household consumption will fall by only one percent at worst; that increases in energy costs would be modest; and that overall costs would be small enough to permit expansion of programs to offset the burden for low - income households.

The «E-Energy» program reportedly demonstrated that the energy consumption of private households could be reduced by up to 10 % using intelligent systems and appropriate incentive mechanisms.

• As a result, if we define net energy consumption as the product of gross energy consumption times an efficiency factor taking into account the efficiency of the energy sources used by households, we may observe an inverted - U relationship between gross energy consumption and income, even though net energy consumption may be monotonically increasing in income.

Average vehicle fuel consumption: A ratio estimate defined as total gallons of fuel consumed by all vehicles divided by (1) the total number of vehicles (for average fuel consumption per vehicle) or (2) the total number of households (for average fuel consumption per household).

The resulting energy savings are comparable to the annual electricity consumption of 750,000 households, lowering CO2 emissions by 250 kilotonnes and saving French businesses $ 200m in energy costs.