Despite an increase in crude oil and gasoline inventories, crude oil prices rose more than $2 to $89.41 a barrel on expectations that a stronger economy would boost consumption of petroleum products.
During Sunday's speech, he said Venezuela was trying to boost consumption of domestic goods as a means of reducing imports.
By delivering a helicopter drop of Amazon Coins to Kindle owners, Amazon is hoping to boost consumption of Kindle Fire content.
They discovered that electronic card payments can increase efficiency and boost consumption of the economy.
Health services tourism has become a substantial industry in Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia, combining health services for wealthy foreigners with recreational packages to boost consumption of such healthcare services (41).
Also, the results suggest establishing perceptions of fruit as being good value for money may have some benefit, in that such perceptions appear to be boosting consumption of fruit in women of lower socioeconomic status.
This produced an illusory boom, but the infusion of capital had only boosted consumption or was wasted on nearly bankrupt state industries--or disappeared into the pockets of corrupt officials.
Lower mortgage rates have boosted consumption.
And the idea of boosting consumption though mass immigration is anathema to all but a tiny group of policymakers, none of whom has the ear of the prime minister.
The government also used tax breaks and other incentives to boost consumption, while the expansion of consumer credit increased the size of the domestic market.
"In addition, we expect that the authorities will focus more on structural imbalance issues by rolling out additional measures to boost consumption, while maintaining the pace of the fiscal stimulus plan in order to support growth," they said.
