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

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

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

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

The year is 1976, and Warner buys Atari because video games are on the rise.

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

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

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

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

In 2003, a new and sustained surge in demand for United Nations peacekeeping began.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Anyone who's ever run a business knows that hiring more people is a course of last resort for capitalists.

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

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

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

It is preparing a structure plan for Doha and surrounding areas to direct the growth of urbanization resulting from the high demand for urban land, housing facilities and infrastructure.

Some of the courses offered deserve special attention on account of the high level of demand for them within the user groups. These are.

It is not in high demand in the global food market, and thus has little impact on food prices and food security.

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

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.

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

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

Despite the increased demand for commodities and the resultant high prices, gains were accruing to only a few countries.

The above project was started in 2002 and already 150 persons with disabilities have applied for the 20 vacancies that only indicate the high demand for such work.

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

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.

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.

Energy demand

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.

This is at 17,000 feet.

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

For example, in the Philippines interest in nursing schools has grown among both women and men, stimulated by the heightened demand for their skills within South East Asia.

Expensive government bonds will shift demand to mortgage or corporate bonds, pushing up their prices.

But this economic logic does not apply in the case of increases in oil prices. Although high oil prices look like a tax on business activity that depresses aggregate demand, they also raise inflation, both directly and indirectly.

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.

Mr. Al Ghanim (Kuwait) said that, regrettably, a number of factors contributing to the rise in oil prices had not been addressed, such as increased demand for energy.

We have met this demand.