He also saw that rising incomes in China meant an increase in seafood consumption there.
But urbanization trends, and rising incomes bode well for housing long term, Li says.
The idea is that a new middle class, with rising incomes, will spend more.
One sign that could bode well for growth is rising incomes for American workers.
The rapid growth of mall culture in Asia and elsewhere reflects the rising incomes and expectations taking place across the globe.
Rising incomes and falling rates have helped to keep historic relative measures of house prices more or less unchanged.
Rising incomes have fueled demand for a wide range of products and services.
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When a man starts railing against productivity gains, growing business investments and rising incomes, he has truly lost his moorings.
The high growth and rising incomes since the reforms began would certainly help the re-election chances of a Western government.
But rising incomes and tax revenues have also helped Mr Blagojevich, who is now dreaming of offering universal free kindergarten.
Demand for private health insurance remained flat throughout the 1990s, despite rising incomes, suggesting that the market may be saturated.
You are now a nation of rapid growth and rising incomes and massive investments in infrastructure and energy and education.
In the last few years, the country went through a period of rising incomes, most of it due to state enterprises.
This reflects, more than anything else, the tremendous increase in automobile ownership and electricity consumption that will come with rising incomes.
Rising incomes have also outpaced rising oil prices and sustained emerging market demand despite a general reduction in subsidies, the IEA says.
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Rising incomes allow Latinos to treat mutts as members of the family.
Although the wealth on display in central Baku does not extend even to the city's suburbs, ordinary Azeris have enjoyed rising incomes.
For many years researchers had been spurred on by an apparent paradox: that rising incomes did not make people happier in the long run.
As population growth and rising incomes create unprecedented demand for food, multinational companies increasingly rely on smallholders to secure their supply of agricultural commodities.
The fund focuses on 8 themes: gaming, luxury goods, big box retail, popular low-cost food brands, rising incomes, real estate, healthcare and, lastly, the internet.
Zephyr predicts that rising incomes and the emergence of a stronger new middle class in the emerging countries will substantially increase demand for goods and services.
And rising incomes have dragged many more people into the top rate of tax, which now starts at just one and a half times average earnings.
Both Thomas Cook and its rival TUI have said future growth will come from fast-growing markets, such as Russia, where rising incomes have fuelled demand for holidays.
Meanwhile, members of the 1946-64 baby-boom generation will be hard at work, presumably earning rising incomes and paying swelling Social Security taxes, even without a further increase.
But in the rich world the decades-long link between rising incomes and car use has been severed (see article), and miles driven per person have been falling.
If we have more people hired, if we get back manufacturing jobs, if we get back all kinds of jobs into this country, then you're going to see rising incomes again.
The underlying demand for housing remains very strong due to a number of factors, including urbanization, rising incomes, high saving rates and the attractiveness of property as an investment in China.
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In 1990-2007, the number of hungry people rose by about 80m, though this was, by and large, a period of rising incomes in developing countries (and a huge increase in population).
Although too many luxury homes were built in some cities, there is no massive oversupply at the national level, and urbanisation and rising incomes will continue to support demand for housing.
With rising incomes comes a desire for flashier brands.
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