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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of household consumption patterns in five key areas: food, tourism-related travel, energy, water and waste generation. It brings together the various elements of household consumption that are necessary to better understand consumption trends and to identify the best policy options towards sustainable consumption. These include data on household consumption trends and drivers, environmental impacts, policy responses and policy recommendations. The analysis shows that environmental impacts from household activities have worsened over the last three decades and are expected to intensify even more over the next twenty years, particularly in the areas of energy, transport and waste if strong and comprehensive policies are not implemented. The book provides a framework and outlines the objectives of policies to promote sustainable consumption. It analyses the effectiveness of different types of policy instruments (regulatory, economic, social) in influencing consumer decision-making, and identifies combinations of instruments for promoting more sustainable consumption.

National consumption --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Consumption (Economics) --- Cost and standard of living --- Sustainable development --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Comfort, Standard of --- Cost of living --- Food, Cost of --- Household expenses --- Living, Cost of --- Living, Standard of --- Standard of living --- Home economics --- Households --- Quality of life --- Wealth --- Luxury --- Prices --- Purchasing power --- Wages --- Consumer demand --- Consumer spending --- Consumerism --- Spending, Consumer --- Demand (Economic theory) --- Environmental aspects --- Surveys --- Economics

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There is world-wide convergence in life expectancy, despite little convergence in GDP per capita. If one values longer life much more than material happiness, the world living standards may this have already converged substantially. This paper introduces the concept of the dynastic general equilibrium value of life to measure welfare gains from the increase in life expectancy. A calibration study finds sizable welfare gains, but these gains hardly mitigate the large inequality among countries. A conventional GDP-based measure remains a good approximation for (non) convergence in world living standards, even when adjusted for changes in life expectancy.

Life expectancy --- Income --- Cost and standard of living --- Convergence (Economics) --- Econometric models. --- Economic convergence --- Comfort, Standard of --- Cost of living --- Food, Cost of --- Household expenses --- Living, Cost of --- Living, Standard of --- Standard of living --- Family income --- Fortunes --- Household income --- Personal income --- Expectancy of life --- Expectation of life --- Economics --- Consumption (Economics) --- Home economics --- Households --- Quality of life --- Wealth --- Luxury --- Prices --- Purchasing power --- Wages --- Finance --- Property --- Gross national product --- Profit --- Life spans (Biology) --- Vital statistics --- Premature death --- Surveys --- Insurance --- Labor --- Macroeconomics --- Human Capital --- Skills --- Occupational Choice --- Labor Productivity --- Health: General --- Aggregate Factor Income Distribution --- Macroeconomics: Consumption --- Saving --- Insurance Companies --- Actuarial Studies --- Labour --- income economics --- Health economics --- Insurance & actuarial studies --- Human capital --- Health --- Consumption --- United States

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This Selected Issues paper analyzes the housing prices, consumption, and the household debt overhang in the Netherlands. Deflated housing prices that were fueled by robust borrowing often leave in their wake households with heavy debt burden. This “debt overhang” forces households into deleveraging—reducing their level of debt to sustainable levels. When deleveraging is brought about through reduced household consumption, it can contribute to a protracted “balance sheet recession” as appears to be the case in the Netherlands. This paper estimates a simultaneous equations model of the Dutch economy using a three-stage least squares approach. Empirical results are supportive of the hypothesis that housing prices strongly affect private consumption.

Cost and standard of living --- Debt --- Housing --- Finance --- Indebtedness --- Comfort, Standard of --- Cost of living --- Food, Cost of --- Household expenses --- Living, Cost of --- Living, Standard of --- Standard of living --- Consumption (Economics) --- Home economics --- Households --- Quality of life --- Wealth --- Luxury --- Prices --- Purchasing power --- Wages --- Surveys --- Corporate Finance --- Infrastructure --- Macroeconomics --- Real Estate --- Industries: Financial Services --- Housing Supply and Markets --- Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis --- Banks --- Depository Institutions --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Mortgages --- Macroeconomics: Consumption --- Saving --- Corporate Finance and Governance: General --- Property & real estate --- Ownership & organization of enterprises --- Monetary economics --- Housing prices --- Consumption --- Small and medium enterprises --- National accounts --- Financial institutions --- Economic sectors --- Saving and investment --- Economics --- Small business --- Netherlands, The

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Quantitative methods in social research --- Social stratification --- Poor --- Poverty --- Cost and standard of living --- Pauvres --- Pauvreté --- Coût et niveau de la vie --- Identification --- Research --- Evaluation --- Case studies --- Recherche --- Etudes de cas --- -Poverty --- -#A0203A --- 666 Armoede --- AA / International- internationaal --- BE / Belgium - België - Belgique --- 339.21 --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Subsistence economy --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Comfort, Standard of --- Cost of living --- Food, Cost of --- Household expenses --- Living, Cost of --- Living, Standard of --- Standard of living --- Consumption (Economics) --- Home economics --- Households --- Quality of life --- Luxury --- Prices --- Purchasing power --- Wages --- -Evaluation --- Ongelijkheid en herverdeling van vermogens en inkomens. Inkomensbeleid. --- Economic conditions --- Surveys --- Pauvreté --- Coût et niveau de la vie --- #A0203A --- Research&delete& --- Ongelijkheid en herverdeling van vermogens en inkomens. Inkomensbeleid --- Evaluation. --- Case studies.

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Using an input-output approach, this paper assesses the distributional effects of a rise in various petroleum product prices in Mali. The results show that, although rising gasoline and diesel prices affect mainly nonpoor households, rising kerosene prices are most harmful to the poor. Overall, the impact of fuel prices on household budgets displays a U-shaped relationship with expenditure per capita. Regardless of the oil product considered, highincome households would benefit disproportionately from oil price subsidies. This suggests that a petroleum price subsidy is an ineffective mechanism for protecting the income of poor households compared with a targeted subsidy.

Cost and standard of living -- Economic aspects -- Mali. --- Electronic books. -- local. --- Petroleum industry and trade -- Subsidies -- Mali. --- Petroleum products -- Economic aspects -- Mali -- Econometric models. --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Cost and standard of living --- Petroleum industry and trade --- Petroleum products --- Economic aspects --- Subsidies --- Econometric models. --- Mazut --- Comfort, Standard of --- Cost of living --- Food, Cost of --- Household expenses --- Living, Cost of --- Living, Standard of --- Standard of living --- Petroleum --- Hydraulic fluids --- Energy industries --- Oil industries --- Consumption (Economics) --- Home economics --- Households --- Quality of life --- Wealth --- Luxury --- Prices --- Purchasing power --- Wages --- Refining --- Surveys --- Investments: Energy --- Inflation --- Macroeconomics --- Public Finance --- General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium: Input-Output Tables and Analysis --- Energy: Demand and Supply --- Price Level --- Deflation --- Energy: General --- National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General --- Investment & securities --- Public finance & taxation --- Energy industries & utilities --- Oil prices --- Oil --- Expenditure --- Energy subsidies --- Commodities --- Expenditures, Public --- Mali