The phrase "promote consumption" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to encouraging people to buy or use products or services. For example, "The government is launching a campaign to promote consumption of locally grown produce."
The European Commission has recently adopted 33 new promotional programmes to help European producers find new markets and promote consumption inside and outside the EU.
They promote consumption and borrowing over savings and investing.
"This bill doesn't promote consumption," said Sebastián Sabini, the legislator sponsoring the bill.
A focus on its concrete properties – its sweet stickiness, for instance – tends to promote consumption.
Or the government could promote consumption by keeping fiscal policy relatively loose.
Not until the boys were old enough to understand how commercials tried to promote consumption were they allowed to watch sports programs on commercial television.
The new policies aim to spur higher-value exports, to target vibrant emerging markets, to open many sectors for private investors, and to promote consumption-led growth rooted in rising middle-class incomes.
Talking about promoting consumption and sustainability in the same breath is a contradiction, as more consumption inevitably means less sustainability.
Instead politicians, businessmen and labor leaders all promoted consumption as the new driver of economic growth.
In the past, the firm has been diligent, even ruthless, in manipulating supply, but lackadaisical in promoting consumption.
"It is one of the forces driving us towards destruction, as it creates needs that did not exist before and promotes consumption way beyond sustainable levels.
