In consumer electronics, for example, low income countries became a natural location for labor intensive assembly processes.

Purchases of these relatively low cost items can be regarded as the withdrawal symptoms of the world s consumer binge.

Without further declines in the saving rate from this very low level, consumer spending will not continue to grow as robustly.

5bis. Developing consumer member means any consumer member as defined in paragraph 5 of this article which is classified by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) as a low income economy or middle income economy

But as long as China s import share of final consumption remains low, direct gains for exporters of consumer goods are likely to be small.

Low long term interest rates have kept the region s debts manageable, while high consumer demand has helped bid up prices for the region s commodity exports.

But the resulting economic slack gives us the historic opportunity and need to compensate for low consumer spending with increased investment spending on sustainable technologies.

Low interest rates eventually jump started the expansion through a house price bubble that supported a debt financed consumer spending binge and triggered a construction boom.

Indeed, foreign investors stay away from economies without basic infrastructure those with costly and unreliable roads, ports, communication systems and electricity and low effective consumer demand.

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Meanwhile, heightened international competition kept the lid on inflation, and interest rates remained low, giving a further boost to consumer spending and completing what looked like a virtuous growth circle.

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Suddenly, the disclosure statement becomes a consumer application that adds value to the vendor consumer relationship.

A religious decision can be a matter of passionate commitment (as in Kierkegaard s leap of faith ), or, more commonly, an emotionally low intensity consumer option (expressed in the telling American phrase religious preference ).

Chinese consumer prices rose about 6.5 over the past year, while US consumer prices rose only about 3.5 .

Real personal consumer spending grew at a robust 4.4 rate, as spending on consumer durables soared by 21 .

Against this background, monetary policymakers must be cautious, because low interest rates can shift the growth model back toward leverage and domestic consumer demand, stalling the structural shift to the tradable side that is underway.

Not surprisingly, survey measures of consumer sentiment fell sharply and consumer spending remained almost flat from month to month.

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For example, when a consumer writes reviews or when a consumer gives a useful idea for new product development then that consumer is creating value for the business if the business adopts the input.

Chinese officials hope that higher household incomes will boost consumer spending, as the tightening labor market causes wages to rise and as urbanization shifts workers from low productivity farm work to higher wage employment in the cities.

Consumer applications for genomics, they will flourish.

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a Changes in the consumer price index.

E tourism websites should be consumer centric.

The past relationship between wealth and consumer spending implies that each 100 of additional wealth raises consumer spending by about four dollars, so 2.5 trillion of additional wealth would raise consumer spending by roughly 100 billion.

First, they were trapped in a vicious circle of low income, low savings and low investment, leading to low productivity and low growth.

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Credit can also temporarily fill consumer budget gaps.

On the consumer side, this is quite understandable.

Ultimately, consumer and business confidence are mostly irrational.