Household consumption in Brazil rose 1% in the second quarter, while imports rose 6.1%.
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Higher than expected corporate spending and household consumption are thought to have contributed to growth.
Commercial use of electricity predominates in China (household consumption accounts for just 10% of the total).
It cites business capital expenditures as improving, which generally leads to employment gains and increased household consumption.
Household consumption accounted for 34% of total GDP in 2010 compared to just 4% from net exports.
In the final three months of 2004, household consumption grew at a quarterly rate of only 0.2%.
Others blame weak demand, as high inflation, falling real wages and fears for the future discourage household consumption.
Retail sales, which represent about 35% of household consumption, have been growing much faster than total consumer spending.
Europe's largest retailer has been hit from sluggish demand in Europe where government austerity measures have hurt household consumption.
Household consumption in Brazil is expected to be 3.8% in 2012, going to 4.9% in 2013, according to Kaplan.
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Household consumption, which accounts for half of spending, fell by 1.2% during 2011.
There are some signs that this is happening in China, where the household consumption rate continued to fall in 2012.
Household consumption accounts for little more than a third of the economy.
Household consumption might be growing briskly, but because it starts from such a low base, it would barely show up in the overall figures.
With consumer debt at a record high and the housing market fragile, the downside risk to household consumption could be higher than the Bank is contemplating.
"Public Expenditures on Social Programs and Household Consumption in China", by Emanuele Baldacci, Giovanni Callegari, David Coady, Ding Ding, Manmohan Kumar, Pietro Tommasino and Jaejoon Woo.
Also over this time period, Brazil recorded 2.8% growth in household consumption, 2.5% growth in gross fixed capital formation and 1.2% growth in the public administration sector.
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Watch countries exposed to runaway food price inflation such as those with a low GDP per capita and a very high percentage of food relative to total household consumption.
He prefers to look at urban household consumption, which may not be growing as fast as retail sales but is still ticking up at 8% to 16% per year, far better than in other countries.
According to Emanuele Baldacci and other economists at the IMF, a sustained rise in public spending by 1% of GDP, spread evenly across health, education and pensions, would increase the ratio of household consumption to GDP by 1.25 percentage points.
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Household consumption rose 1%.
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The rise in global commodities has aggravated the challenges of this policy, since Beijing can expect to import more goods at higher costs, even as it fails to generate new household consumption-driven demand effectively (notwithstanding the surge in automobile imports when comparing the first-quarter 2011 deficit to that of 2004).
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That year a new manager took over and instituted a tiered system of payment: If your household consumption was not more than 7.5 cubic meters per month (this would take care of water required for drinking, cooking and some hygienic needs of an average family of eight), you paid a subsidized rate, but if your monthly consumption was more, you paid a market rate.
The company said average UK household gas consumption was up 21% over the year, while electricity consumption was up 5%.
Household-consumption growth has powered the economic expansion of the past few years.
Household energy consumption has been on a downward trend since 2005, partly as a result of energy efficiency measures already in place, according to the report.
Cold weather meant average UK household gas consumption rose.
Branko Milanovic, lead economist for the World Bank research group, sent me this comparative analysis based on household income or consumption surveys worldwide, adjusted for purchasing power differences.
The ultimate in energy efficiency will come when power producers can turn on and off small substations at a moments notice based on real-time data on energy consumption at a household level, and consumers can make power purchasing decision based on real-time metering of their consumption.
To boost its green credentials, the designers have incorporated 160 square meters of solar panels on the roof, as well as wind generators that can produce 28-30 kilowatt hours of power (kwh) -- the average daily consumption of a family household.
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