Sentences with phrase «increase household consumption»

It also raises the real value of disposable household income and in so doing may increase household consumption.

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«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.»

Having increased their borrowing, households are less inclined to let consumption growth run ahead of growth in incomes for too long.

At the same time unemployment will rise, which will partially reduce the savings rate, but worried Chinese households with jobs will cut back on consumption, which will increase the savings rate.

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

German investment rates did not rise to match the increase in savings (in fact I think investment actually declined), nor did consumption among ordinary German households surge.

As savings were force up structurally, whether because of rising income inequality or a declining household share of GDP, the system responded in ways that were sustainable (increases in productive investment) and in ways that were unsustainable (rising inventory in China, increases in speculative investment in the US, China, and Europe, and increases in credit - financed consumption in the US and southern Europe).

Until we understand this do not expect the global crisis to end anytime soon, except perhaps temporarily with a new surge in credit - fueled consumption in the US (which will cause the trade deficit to worsen) and more wasted investment in China (which, because it is financed with cheap debt, which comes at the expense of the household sector, may simply increase investment at the expense of consumption).

In the euro area, the household saving rate increased due to a larger fall in real final consumption expenditure -LRB--0.7 %) than in real gross disposable income -LRB--0.4 %).

However, this is changing, and the increase in the level of household debt over the past decade is a major shift, with significant knock - on implications for consumption.

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.

An additional factor explaining the continued strength of consumption over the past couple of years has been the strong increase in household wealth.

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.

Households have reduced their indebtedness and increased their saving, and consumption growth in the December quarter was the strongest in over two years.

With income growth outpacing that in consumption, there was also a small increase in the measured household saving ratio.

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.

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.

Households are bound to become more cautious if the prospect of an economic downturn increases, and this would show up as weaker consumption and a rise in precautionary savings.

A school salad bar increases frequency of fruit and vegetable consumption among children living in low - income households

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.

When agent density rose — from zero to six agents over six years — these households saw a daily per capita consumption increase of about 18.5 percent.

A new study estimates that, since 2008, access to mobile - money services — which allow users to store and exchange monetary values via mobile phone — increased daily per capita consumption levels of 194,000, or roughly 2 percent, of Kenyan households, lifting them out of extreme poverty (living on less than $ 1.25 per day).

But there's an interesting gender effect: Female - headed households saw far greater increases in consumption than male - headed households.

The increase in use of words like «choose,» «compete,» «private,» «autonomy» and «innovation» demonstrated a growing prevalence of individualistic values coinciding with sharp rises in urban population, household consumption and education levels.

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 diet rich in vegetable oils, white flour and sugar, exposure to pesticides and herbicides, consumption of conventionally raised dairy and meat products, the high use of plastics, as well as use of some cosmetics, toiletries and household cleaners, increases the cancer causing 16a OH Estrone metabolite.

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.

While consumption has increased, research has shown that the median household makes less money than it did a decade ago.

As households increase savings and reduce debt, consumption is lower contributing to slower growth.

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.»

Shrubs, flowers and plants based in soil require constant watering, and a household's water consumption can easily increase dramatically.

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.

• 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.

Though energy prices are expected to increase modestly, energy consumption is expected to counteract these increases as households take advantage of these energy efficiency programs.

49 Rising Energy Costs for Consumers Average annual household utility bills have increased 48 % since 1980 (adjusted for inflation)-- Add in today's average annual gasoline budget per household and today's estimated annual home energy budget is over $ 3,800 Electricity costs continue to rise, with some utilities requesting rate increases of 35 % or more Spending on electricity is the highest share of total consumer spending since the energy crisis of 2000 Energy consumption has been rising along with costs — Electricity consumed by the typical American household has more than doubled since 1980 and is expected to increase another 20 % by 2015

During this same period, annual electricity consumption per household actually fell from 94.9 to 89.6 million Btu per household --- meaning that rising household energy expenditures came from rising energy costs, not increased usage.

«Increasing consumption in urbanising China has been identified as an important driver of household carbon footprints over the last 20 years due to the growing urban population and incomes, while decreasing carbon intensity of the Chinese economy only weakly dampens these trends,» the study says.

During the 1960s, the expansion in publicly provided services created employment opportunities for women and as men's wage increases started to stall, married women took on part - time jobs in order to maintain household consumption standards.