Sentences with phrase «domestic consumption as»

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Aided by a weaker dollar, they started breaking export records, even as domestic consumption continued to languish.

Although it's often cast as a means of spurring domestic consumption, some economists argue the real objective is currency devaluation.

The data «reflects a deteriorating export market and strengthened domestic consumption» that may cancel each other out and keep gross domestic product growing at 6.5 percent this year as Beijing had forecast, said Helen Lau, analyst at Argonaut Securities.

As long as low domestic consumption (currently in the range of 40 - 50 % of GDP, based on varying estimates) continues to constrain demand, Chinese growth is unlikely to pick up speed anytime sooAs long as low domestic consumption (currently in the range of 40 - 50 % of GDP, based on varying estimates) continues to constrain demand, Chinese growth is unlikely to pick up speed anytime sooas low domestic consumption (currently in the range of 40 - 50 % of GDP, based on varying estimates) continues to constrain demand, Chinese growth is unlikely to pick up speed anytime soon.

The investment outlook may also depend on how much progress China can make in its efforts to enact fiscal reforms as it works through its historic shift from export - led growth to an economy led by domestic consumption.

The basic principle is that U.S. consumer demand and military spending should be the «engine» that drives foreign production, rather than production abroad driving domestic consumption (as in Say's Law).

Spain could therefore either use the imported German capital to (a) increase domestic investment (which it did in the form of a real estate bubble)(b) binge on consumption and sharply reduce its savings as a function of GDP (which it also did)(c) accept higher unemployment (which it is now forced to do) which forces GDP to fall faster than consumption falls or (d) try to emulate Germany by passing off a trade imbalance at the expense of the rest of the world (which Europe as a whole is trying to do and which will go nowhere in the long run because only one country is even remotely capable of accepting such massive inflows, and it is increasingly unwilling to import the unemployment caused by German and Asian policies).

Its future growth will come from a spike in domestic consumption and from leveraging such national assets as the labor pool.

Much of the decline has been self - imposed as communist leaders try to steer China to more sustainable growth driven by domestic consumption following the past decade's explosive expansion based on trade and investment.

Perhaps they welcome a decline in economic growth and living standards as being conducive to lower domestic energy consumption.

The pace of domestic demand growth has eased from the rapid rate seen in 2002, as dwelling investment has levelled off and consumption growth has moderated to a more sustainable pace (Graph 20).

As the chart shows, China's trade sensitivity peaked as it started to shift toward growth based on domestic consumptioAs the chart shows, China's trade sensitivity peaked as it started to shift toward growth based on domestic consumptioas it started to shift toward growth based on domestic consumption.

The demand for Indium and gallium could easily become as large as 500 times the current domestic consumption.

As growth has slowed, China must transform its export - led economy to one fueled by domestic consumption, become a leader in technological innovation, and power these changes with renewable energy.

TOKYO (MNI)- Japan's gross domestic product for the January - March quarter is expected by economists to be flat both on quarter and at an annualized pace, as solid capital investment is offset by weak private consumption amid bad winter weather.

According to some sources, such as Myers, even though meat production in Costa Rica tripled during the period 1960 - 70 internal consumption fell to a point where each person ate «less meat than a domestic cat receives annually in the United States» (Myers 1981, 6).

All this, however, was for domestic consumption within Israel, not for foreign export; such ideas of fair play and goodwill toward foreigners as are found in the book apply only to those sojourning in Israel.

As a result of the small population and the large ratio of livestock to people, Australian red meat production far exceeds domestic consumption, making Australia one of the largest exporters of red meat in the world.

The expertise and technology services will be crucial to the Chinese economy, says Buckingham, because as China relies more on domestic consumption it needs more innovation to sustain GDP growth.

America will be needing us soon as they're going to run out of wine, land and water due to a rise in domestic consumption,» he added.

As export markets are faltering, domestic consumption — and therefore the empowerment of the Chinese private sector — must step up to compensate.

This further distorted financial markets, increased local government debt, improved infrastructure rather than skills and delayed the growth of private domestic consumption, which everyone agrees must replace investment and exports as the driver of Chinese growth.

He said, «The low LPG consumption in Nigeria has resulted in heavy dependence on kerosene and firewood as primary domestic cooking fuel.

Nigeria continues the absurdity of expending more than 30 % of scarce foreign currency importing refined petroleum products, a self - imposed malaise as we insist on subsidizing domestic fuel consumption; and crude oil and gas as a percentage of our export revenue stays at 96 % meaning beyond all the talk of diversification, current rhetoric does not match the outcomes!

As Manuela Carneiro, a researcher who took part in the study published in «Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety», informs SINC: «This is due to the type of diet these animals have — strictly carrion from domestic and wild hunting species — because the consumption of hunting species increases the likelihood of ingesting lead.»

Eric Paulos at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and colleagues report in a new paper how, as part of a study of domestic energy consumption, they gave 12 US households gadgets called Kill A Watts that reveal the energy use of devices.

For example, Jakarta's consumption of groundwater for industry and domestic use has been so high that sea water has infiltrated shallow wells as far as 10 kilometres inland.

Domestic consumption among major producers such as Saudi Arabia is also soaring, reducing supply to others.

October 5, 2012 • Mitt Romney has stressed ways of further increasing domestic production, while the president says better gas mileage and lowering consumption are important as well.

Toyota did badge it as the Excelsior for domestic consumption, but the Excelsior did not exist prior to the LS400.

The Spanish used the island that they called Santiago as a base for supporting the conquest of the Americas; economic activity consisted primarily of production for domestic consumption and supplying ships.

As oil exporting nations experience both declining oil production and increased domestic oil consumption, they will reduce oil exports to the U.S. Because the U.S. is highly dependent on imported oil for transportation, food production, industry, and residential heating, the nation will experience the impacts of declining oil supplies sooner and more severely than much of the world.

Moving toward population stabilization would contribute significantly to America's ability to solve its domestic problems as well as many of those abroad, especially energy and resource consumption, climate change and environmental sustainability.

Meanwhile, the consumption of oil, half the domestic demand of which is met by imports, is rapidly increasing as vehicle ownership continues to make inroads into China's growing middle class.

Economic growth in China is still robust — China's gross domestic product grew an estimated 7.8 % in the first half of 2012 — but its growth is slower than in recent years, as is its growth in energy consumption.

The latter part is more original stuff, as I (i) make the case for how China's clean energy push is in fact consistent with its overall economic reform, e.g. Scientific Development, reduction of excess industrial capacity, natural resource price reform, western development, boosting domestic consumption, and Going Out strategy; (ii) describe China's activities in innovation and R&D and its desire to create, not just produce, energy technologies of the 21st century; (iii) address criticisms that China's «indigenous innovation» policies are protectionist in nature by pointing out the myopia of such observations from a US (or EU for that matter) policymakers point of view; (iv) provide thoughts about what the proper U.S. policy response should be.

Domestic solar power has helped to decrease the average demand for power from the electricity grid, but peak power consumption, so far as I know, has not declined, and the generation and transmission system has to be able to cover peak demand.

When it nears the point of consumption, such as our homes, the electricity is transformed down to the safer 100 - 250 voltage systems used in the domestic market.

U.S. energy efficiency, which EIA defines as «energy intensity» (energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product) is among the world's leaders:

While the PNMC carbon budget to 2020 targets a reduction of approximately 30 % in emissions against as a business as usual scenario, it still represents an absolute increase of over 100 % on 2005 levels, providing some scope for domestic pre-salt oil consumption.

ie as consumers are able to drop the cost of energy from their budgets through domestic solar and other, living standards will increase even as global oil prices steadily rise, and grid energy will increase in cost due to altered consumption patterns.

But, because of global interconnections, helping China reduce its production emissions may be just as effective as domestic policies focusing on consumption.

The gift that is American energy is seen in some key numbers: domestic crude oil production reaching more than 9 million barrels per day last month, the highest level in more than two decades, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA); total U.S. net imports of energy as a share of energy consumption falling to their lowest level in nearly 30 years during the first six months of this year; gasoline prices dropping to an average of $ 2.47 per gallon last week, their lowest point since May 2009, according to the Lundberg Survey Inc..

Due to the lack of domestic oil sources, the French government has encouraged the use of nuclear power as an alternative energy source to oil where possible, and the proportion of France's total energy consumption derived from oil decreased from 71 percent in 1973 to 39 percent in 2003.

But as people have moved from the countryside to the cities, and as China's economic planners focus more on bolstering domestic consumption and moving away from export - led growth, income inequality has increased — along with the carbon footprint of those in urban areas.

So the conculsion is, we may have 100 years of domestic NG in the US based upon current consumption, and these resources are valueable, just not as valuable as past resources.

«The supply of water from high - altitude glacierized mountain chains is important for agricultural and domestic consumption, as well as for hydropower,» he wrote.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.

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