Is the distribution of income between rich and poor not also a very important factor when you want to determine how much of it is going
into domestic consumption and how much into savings?
Not exact matches
Meiji Holdings Co., a Japanese chocolate maker, is investing some 27 billion yen ($ 240 million)
into extending two
domestic factories amid growing chocolate
consumption in the country.
Yet at a time when the global market for their products is growing, thousands of Canadian farmers are locked
into arrangements under which they produce solely for
domestic consumption.
Indonesia's economy has been typically boosted by strong all - round investment and
domestic consumption, large contributors to diversification, which have in turn insulated the country from slipping
into the doldrums of the global financial system.
«Growing milk production and higher
domestic consumption of all dairy products, except butter, is expected to increase output of dairy products in 2008 and
into 2009,» stated the report.
But a facility in Windhoek, Namibia, has processed
domestic sewage
into potable water for human
consumption since the late 1960s «with no obvious adverse health effects among the population of several hundred thousand,» the authors state.
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.
In 2015 the share of renewables in the country's
domestic energy mix increased to 33 %, At the same time, Germany managed to cut down its power
consumption in the past year by 3.8 %, despite a booming economy (+1.4 %) which generally translates
into a higher energy demand, by using LED technology and energy saving measures.
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.