The army, which backs Bangladesh's caretaker government, lately has been promoting greater consumption of potatoes.
While the subsidies encourage greater consumption, eliminating them is not easy.
Little is being done to shift the economy away from a heavy reliance on capital spending and toward greater consumption.
His team did the same with chocolate brownies, and introducing vanilla ice cream led to greater consumption (although, controversially, whipped cream did not).
Instead of relying on an ever greater consumption of resources to generate growth, Brown says mankind needs to move to a fairer, more sustainable model.
We need also to stop price promotions in supermarkets, which are almost entirely on the most unhealthy foods and encourage greater consumption.
There is a concern that this form of manufacturing, in particular with regards to consumer goods, will fuel greater consumption and waste.
Library is trying to encourage greater consumption of sea food by the city's youngsters with an exhibit, in the Children's Room, of literature dealing with marine life.
At the United Nations' Rio+20 conference on sustainable development last year, he railed against the "blind obsession" to achieve growth through greater consumption.
But cheaper energy, in turn, is likely to prompt greater consumption, undermining at least some of the original benefits.
The logic is compelling: artificially low prices encourage greater consumption, leaving less oil to export for cash.
