But they also represent a potential way to increase GDP should overall demand decline significantly.

At any given moment, the overall macroeconomic situation will influence demand for labour in the economy.

And it is the absolute size of China's external surplus that determines the impact on global demand.

Energy hungry America has long depended on the global market to meet domestic demand.

It is also comparable to the demand driven collapse in 2008 2009, following the global financial crisis.

Summers s view is that pre crisis indebtedness was not an exogenous anomaly it was the consequence of insufficient global demand.

But it is impeded by slow growth and, thanks to high unemployment and weak global demand, persistently low inflation.

One producer, Asian Plantations, estimates that global demand for edible oils will more than quadruple by 2050.

When boom turned to bust, falling global demand hit China s export sector, and threatened to increase unemployment.

Developing country producers, who in an earlier era accounted for a relatively small fraction of global demand, became major consumers.

Global Witness wants to see a fall in consumer demand for products linked to violence such as timber, soya and palm oil.

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German exports would also benefit from a weaker euro, boosting overall economic demand in Germany.

And China s banks pumped massive amounts of credit into the country s economy, enabling it to sustain import demand, which was critical to the global recovery.

Given stagnation in the eurozone and Japan s uncertain prospects, a Chinese hard landing would be a big hit to global demand.

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Rather, it is to embrace and fulfill its role as the world s central bank, by balancing aggregate demand and potential supply for the global economy as a whole.

Today s global economy bears striking similarities to the immediate post war period high unemployment, high and rising debt levels, and a global shortage of aggregate demand are constraining growth and generating deflationary pressures.

The malaise afflicting today s global economy might be best reflected in two simple slogans It s the politics, stupid and Demand, demand, demand.

The price reflects the demand.

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The first is the decline in global demand in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, which has forced China to adjust its growth model sooner than anticipated.

The usual thinking is that lower prices stimulate global demand, because consumers are likely to spend most of the windfall, whereas producers typically adjust by cutting back savings.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was the envy of the world, owing to an all powerful export machine that tapped the demand of a rapidly growing global economy.

But, in order to establish a global energy system that meets growing demand within the constraints of carbon neutrality, we must avoid the pitfalls that have plagued past responses.

The McKinsey Global Institute has recently studied internet based approaches to the labor market and the challenge of matching demand for talent and skills with supply.

And when supply is equal to demand, everything's fine, but when supply falls, in this case of oxygen, and demand stays high, you're dead.

Moreover, production may occur in response to actual demand, not anticipated or forecast demand.

As the global economy has continued to slide, falling demand and lost jobs are hitting businesses, families and communities throughout the EU.

At an aggregate level, it will result in more economic activity, leading to higher real income and demand and improve the competitiveness of all European enterprises.

Supply is relative to demand.

The second front on which we need to take action is demand.

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The price varies with demand.

It's risk and demand.

And thirdly, public demand.

True, debt spurs demand but this type of demand is artificial and short lived.

As this clean up from the Great Recession continues, one thing is clear the source of global demand in the future will be the billions of consumers in Africa, China, and India. But it will take time to activate that demand, for what is now being produced around the world for industrial country consumers cannot simply be shipped to emerging market consumers, especially the poorer ones among them.

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One narrative features a robust German economy with low unemployment, strong finances, and the right competitive position to exploit the most dynamic segments of global demand.

By 2030, demand for animal products will double, with overall food demand rising by 40 .

But, when countries pursue austerity simultaneously with their main trading partners, overall demand plummets, causing all of their economies to contract and, in turn, increasing their debt GDP ratios.

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