China's central bank should develop new policy tools to help boost consumption, while beefing up efforts to support property ...

Is it time to go ahead and park your money in the consumption theme and say goodbye to the capex theme? Prashant Khemka: In the last several years, there was a strong operating momentum and as a ...

Low wages are to blame for stagnant consumption. On February 1, U.S. President Donald Trump took a step toward implementing a campaign promise by signing an executive order to levy tariffs on the ...

Along with this, consumption habits became centred around notions of disposability and obsolescence. Plastics made the essential features of contemporary capitalism possible: a drive to limitless ...

However, the weak link has been sluggish consumption, particularly among middle-class segments. While there was some discussion around rate cuts, the core issue is the slowdown in consumption.