The result of a decrease in supply and an increase in demand is higher prices.

Improved performance or higher quality service does not occur on demand.

At the same time, there was a surge in demand for gold jewelry.

It is a challenge for oil exporters among the ESCWA member countries to combine sustainable domestic demand creation with economic diversification.

If not, we will not be able to limit the global temperature increase to a sustainable level.

The main reason for the lag is not simply low demand or large debts.

The lifting of the ban was due to the high demand for timber for rehabilitation and reconstruction activities.

However, rising demand in consumer countries was a further complicating factor.

It is projected that world energy demand will continue to grow rapidly in the coming decades.

However, as we saw in 2004 and 2005, exports are not enough to create substantial growth if domestic demand does not follow.

When an economy is suffering from high unemployment and weak aggregate demand, spending cuts are contractionary.

With rising demand, firms would hire, and all would be well.

Central banks respond to lowered demand by reducing interest rates and to higher expected inflation by raising interest rates.

In the longer run, that gap needs to be filled by higher foreign demand and increased export potential.

And, with demand high and housing supply fixed at least in the short run prices go up.

As incomes rise, categories reach a takeoff point where demand accelerates by 3 5 times.

The first path is to boost demand for goods and services, and then sit back and watch employment rise as businesses hire people to make the goods and services to meet that demand.

Higher interest rates also raise the cost of borrowing to buy these assets, which may diminish demand for them, exerting downward pressure on their prices.

Consumption, fueled by huge Asian demand for African commodities, is on the rise across the continent.

Indeed, America s current account position strengthened despite the dollar s appreciation in the face of safe haven demand.

But students of economics will no doubt remember an early encounter with Giffen goods, which violate the usual pattern.

Diversity in modes of transportation Sustainable transportation emphasizes the use of a diversity of fuel efficient transportation vehicles in order to reduce greenhouse emissions and diversity fuel demand.

This could be complemented by studies to evaluate the energy demand and supply in the subsector with a view to facilitating the formulation of policies and strategies for achieving sustainable transport.

This signals a remarkable shift in relative demand for high quality and liquid financial assets an extraordinary rise in market wide excess demand for such assets.

A Sustainable Recovery

America s domestic demand shortfall reflects rising savings, balance sheet damage in the household sector, unemployment, and fiscal distress.

However, some public hospitals are in poor condition and often lack necessary supplies to attend the high demand of patients.

A vibrant rural sector can generate demand for locally produced goods and services, thereby stimulating sustainable employment growth in agro processing, services, and small scale manufacturing.

The key problem in times like these is that investor demand for safe, secure, and liquid assets and thus their value is too high, while demand for assets that underpin and finance the economy s productive capital is too low.

In the context of a recovering world economy, and given a sustained surge in demand from developing countries, particularly from China, India and countries of Latin America, world demand for oil grew steadily in 2004.

Lower demand for Greek debt caused its price to fall, meaning that its yield in terms of market interest rates rose.

That means that oil prices have increased in other countries, which should have reduced, not increased, demand.

Combined with increasing demand from those with higher incomes and lower supplies due to weather related problems associated with climate change, this means high food prices a lethal threat to developing countries.

In the 550 scenario, energy demand up to 2030 rises by about 32 , with the share of fossil fuels falling markedly, and average demand up 1.2 yearly, compared to 1.6 in the Reference Scenario.

At the same time, Japan s demographic trends will boost demand for fiscal expenditure, as pension and health care costs rise.

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Sustainable consumption and tourism

Jobs could be eliminated by technology, but not by global competition and, unsustainable, debt fueled domestic demand growth helped to delay the current employment deficits.

Let me give you an example of this. The year is 1976, and Warner buys Atari because video games are on the rise.

Fourth, rising job losses lead to greater demands for protectionist measures, as governments are pressured to save domestic jobs.

So if the firm takes on too much debt, the cost of debt rises as creditors demand a higher risk premium, and ROE decreases.

As the representatives of Kuwait and the Islamic Republic of Iran had pointed out, high oil prices were indeed caused by growing demand rather than restricted supply.

Moreover, boom in global consumption of cocaine owing to higher demand in Europe and Latin America, together with stable demand in the United States has brought new income to some Bolivians.

Rather, the risk stems from governments refusal, when push comes to shove, to match aggregate demand to aggregate supply in order to prevent mass unemployment.

Growing demand for energy, metals, and minerals particularly in China has driven unprecedented levels of foreign investment.