In other countries subsidies helped to kick-start demand, but Britain's system of conversion grants was badly run, and eventually fell foul of European state-aid rules.Nevertheless, ministers are keen to promote gas for cars on environmental grounds.
There is already an archive of Arts Council England films that could kick start a terrific video-on-demand service for the arts, but they're currently only cleared for academic use.
If the domestic income embodied in exports is high, the export-led growth model will kick-start domestic demand and, from the perspective of demand, growth will be doubly grounded, i.e., both foreign and domestic demand.
(The owners claim that they kick-started the demand for these lamps which are now on sale in their thousands in the Grand Bazaar).
It says something that the increase was sold as a way to boost competitiveness (VAT is a tax that hurts consumption but not exports).This tale of export fetishism tells us how Germany looks abroad for demand to kick-start its recoveries and explains why its trade balance rises in the early phase of the cycle.
In its latest monthly report, the German central bank indicated that the 0.6% drop in GDP in the final three months of last year will soon be clawed back: There are signs that economic activity will gradually pick up pace in the remainder of the year, although the external environment should not be expected to kick-start a very strong surge in demand.
To be fair to Osborne, he dreamed up this scheme two years ago in a desperate search to "kick-start" demand.
Gordon Brown last week appeared to row back from suggestions of a fresh spending splurge in the budget to kick-start demand, after a warning from Bank of England governor Mervyn King that the government must avoid jeopardising the long-term sustainability of its finances.
The government supports higher spending - giving subsidies for car and rice purchases - in a bid to kick-start demand.
As in the case of the aforementioned sample ebooks that are currently free, Moglue uses this measure to kick-start demand on the platform: after the four weeks, authors can start charging for their ebooks freely.
