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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cecil Pigou and Franco Modigliani objected that if demand were successfully increased, the money wage level would rise, catch up to demand, and thus push employment back down to its previous level.

Russia depends heavily on Turkmen gas for domestic consumption and export abroad, which could prove vital as demand rises over the next decade.

From 1965 to 1997, Arab population growth drove demand for agricultural development, leading to a doubling of land under irrigation.

Although high oil prices and a relatively cheap ruble initially drove this growth, since 2003 consumer demand and, more recently, investment have played a significant role.

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

Indeed, the post crisis shortfall in domestic demand is causing stubbornly high unemployment, even as the economy recovers some of its growth momentum.

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.

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.