Sentences with phrase «higher consumption in»

Adjusting recipes to enhance taste and giving kids more choices yielded higher consumption in about half of the programs that tried either approach.

World population needs to be stabilised quickly and high consumption in rich countries rapidly reduced to avoid «a downward spiral of economic and environmental ills», warns a major report from the Royal Society.

Not exact matches

In this study, consumption of a high ratio of PUFAs to saturated fats led to a higher resting metabolism, as well as a greater diet - induced calorie burn.

So far, those concerns have had much less impact on sales in emerging markets, where entrance to the middle class includes consumption of higher - calorie, higher - fat food products that are only available with more disposable income.

Outside South and Central America, where the fruit is native, Australia has the highest per - capita consumption in the world, at an annual 3.2 kilograms (kg), or about 15 fruits, according to industry body Avocados Australia.

This month, the EU approved the first new GM crop for use in 12 years — a high - quality starch potato for industrial use, not consumption.

Fueled by low prices, and an improving job market, consumption of gasoline in the U.S. rose by 2.6 per cent last year to 9.2 million barrels a day, the highest level since 2007, the government said.

Pelmorex zeroed in on Europe, North America and Latin America, partly because of the high rates of digital media consumption.

As someone in their mid-50's, I am old enough to remember the start of oil - price gouging and the beginning of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) holding our energy consumption hostage by controlling the supply of crude and keeping prices high.

«Increase in exports to Germany, higher consumption and falling hydro inflows are bullish factors, while stronger wind power output is to hold back Nordic prices,» a Point Carbon analyst said.

Between 2010 and 2013, overall apple consumption grew by 13 %; in 2013 Americans ate 17.5 pounds of apples per capita, the highest consumption had been in nearly 10 years.

While demand for cranberries is at its highest this time of the year, the number of cranberries in inventories by September was large enough to satisfy consumption numbers, Bloomberg reported.

For instance, agriculture has produced record levels for the past few years and yet inventories are the lowest in 40 years because consumption keeps going higher and higher, faster than production does.

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.

Contact lenses is one in 10 people, but the shoe market is everybody, and the consumption is monstrously higher.

THE fundamentals of the gold market clearly supported a higher price, this year and in the future, according to Newmont chairman and CEO Ronald Cambre.The basis of his argument is that record consumption in 1999 was seven per cent above the previous...

Rising income and rising uncertainty both suggest that we should expect higher, not lower, household savings rates, which in turn imply that household income must grow faster, not slower, than household consumption.

In Japan and China, especially the latter, weak consumption and high savings are not driven by very high personal savings preferences.

Canada currently supplies over 1/3 of U.S. lumber consumption and if the current rate of growth in housing starts continues, the U.S. will need to increasingly rely on higher - priced imported lumber from outside of North America to fulfill their needs if they impose a quota restriction on Canadian lumber.

More sustainable demand (in the form of needed infrastructure or of higher consumption by wealthier workers) will lead to more productive investment by redeploying underutilized resources, including unemployed workers.

CryptoSolarTech, a blockchain start - up dedicated to addressing the problem of high energy consumption in cryptocurrency mining, has just completed a successful pre-ICO phase of their...

I suspect that Japanese consumption is more equal than in the US, and that the upper 50 % of Americans consume at far higher levels than in Japan, while the bottom 50 % are closer to Japanese levels.

In the case of the household sector, both Mr. Flaherty and the Governor of the Bank of Canada are warning Canadians about their high debt levels and urging them to curtail their consumption and to reduce their debt.

For most of the 2000s, China experienced extremely high growth in natural gas consumption (17.4 % in 2013 for example).

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

Using PSID data from 1976 through 2003, we find that households that experience an involuntary job loss reduce their consumption more if they live in states with higher bankruptcy exemptions.

Asset holdings are lower in states with high exemptions, suggesting that the consumption smoothing result is driven by lack of self - insurance, not by less access to credit.

CryptoSolarTech, a blockchain start - up dedicated to addressing the problem of high energy consumption in cryptocurrency mining, has just completed a successful pre-ICO phase of their token sale campaign and broadly surpassed the softcap.

The decline in coal consumption fits an overall pattern seen in China over the past few years, which suggests that China is running out of high quality coal.

In a working paper entitled «Taxation and Economic Efficiency» Department of Finance concluded that tax reductions on savings and investment yield higher efficiency gains than tax reductions on consumption.

For developed economies, in other words, significantly higher capital inflows from abroad would either cause savings to decline as the inflows strengthen their currencies and reduce exports — causing either unemployment or consumption to rise — or, if their central banks act to sterilize the inflows, to increase imports by increasing consumer debt.

In the case of China, for example, whatever GDP growth turns out to be, and again this is just arithmetic, Chinese household income growth will be higher and investment growth lower — after nearly thirty years of the reverse relationship — so that the impact of slower growth will be disproportionately smaller on consumption growth and larger on investment growth.

I based my growth expectations on what I think were conservative estimates of consumption growth and the growth in productive investment (with which the reported data is currently consistent, although do not prove my assumptions one way or the other), but I always pointed out that as long as credit growth accelerated, the growth in non-productive investment would remain high, in which case reported GDP would also remain high for much longer.

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).

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.

The only reason the combination of lower consumption and lower investment did put greater downward pressure on German GDP and German employment is because the rules of the European currency union eliminated adjustment mechanisms both in Germany and in its European partners, and so effectively forced nearly the entire German savings and production gap onto those parts of Europe that had a history of higher inflation.

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).

A reduction in income or consumption taxes, financed by an increase in carbon taxes, would be a clear gain for the higher income, lower carbon demographic.

If policies that transfer income from poor to rich, and so suppress consumption, don't unleash savings into higher actual investment levels, they can easily cause instead a reduction in desired investment levels, so that paradoxically investment actually falls.

Higher domestic savings due to the reduction in the capital account surplus mean lower government expenditures, investment or consumption.

In addition, high inflation (at 25 % year - on - year in August 2017) continues to weaken private consumptioIn addition, high inflation (at 25 % year - on - year in August 2017) continues to weaken private consumptioin August 2017) continues to weaken private consumption.

Mining is one way to get in on the action, but some cities aren't taking too kindly to the high power consumption that goes along with it.

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).

Travel and gasoline consumption are expected to be higher this summer compared to levels in 2014.

Imports of goods also expanded at a firm pace in the second half of 2003, particularly consumption imports, which rose in line with robust consumer spending to be around 12 per cent higher over the year; imports of capital and intermediate goods were also sharply higher over the year.

High - saving countries created employment, and low - saving countries enjoyed faster consumption growth as cheap imports meant that living standards rose by more than the increase in production — worth around half a percentage point a year in the United Kingdom.

Personal consumption expenditure (PCE) inflation, meanwhile, rose to 2.2 percent in February, higher than the 2.1 percent reported in January, although the monthly figures slipped to 0.2 from 0.5 percent.

In the wake of his victory, the prime minister called on Japanese companies to raise wages by 3 % as part of his efforts to fuel higher consumption and inflation.

High consumption is litterally eating away the savings of the highly paid executive putting him or her in a financially risky position.

As a percentage of total personal consumption expenditures (PCE), combined food and energy spending have risen from a low of 10.7 % in July 2017 to 11.2 % in January 2018 (before easing to 11.0 % in February)-- with considerable room to move higher.