There is especially high demand in foreign markets for tuna, shark, lobster and shrimp.

As China satisfied its demand for safe assets, it turned to riskier foreign investments. It began rebalancing its economy from saving to consumption and from exports to domestic demand.

Oil windfalls alone are not necessarily responsible for domestic demand, since oil revenue can migrate into foreign asset accumulation.

Developing countries demand not only that foreign investors should exercise corporate responsibility they need to be transparent in their operations.

The growth in domestic investments would not only enhance national wealth, but would also spur the demand for foreign capital and technology in an escalating, mutually reinforcing manner that makes investments demand driven.

Indeed, foreign investors stay away from economies without basic infrastructure those with costly and unreliable roads, ports, communication systems and electricity and low effective consumer demand.

Due to the huge US budget deficit, the supply of American government bonds will increase astronomically in the years ahead. But there is no guarantee that demand for these Treasury notes among foreign investors including foreign governments will be sufficient.

It is tempting to ascribe the rare African successes Botswana and Mauritius to foreign demand for their exports (diamonds and garments, respectively), but that story goes only so far. Obviously, both countries would be considerably poorer without access to foreign markets.

According to the OECD, the annualized flow of German goods exports from January 2008 to January 2009 declined by 173 billion more than the corresponding flow of imports fell, which means that Germany s annualized trade surplus fell by the same amount. This is the strongest decline in net foreign demand facing a single country, or, equivalently, the strongest increase in a country s net demand for foreign goods.

Several projects are ongoing to develop more harmonized data on business services, business demography, foreign affiliates, demand for services, inter enterprise relationships, factors affecting enterprise success and measurement of international sourcing.

Within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the remote sensing program of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) continued to be a critical element in the analysis of domestic and foreign agricultural production, supply, and demand providing timely, accurate, and unbiased estimates of global area, yield, and production.

But even these measures, which foreign observers have largely overlooked, have failed to boost consumer demand. So what more could the German government do to wean the Germans off their abstemious habits?

First, high commodity prices yield windfall profits for the region s leading producers of raw materials. Growing demand for energy, metals, and minerals particularly in China has driven unprecedented levels of foreign investment.

Government investors are not necessarily driven by the return maximizing calculus that motivates private investors. If foreign official demand is the real reason behind the euro s strength, the risk is that foreign sovereign euro buyers will eventually flee, just as private investors would, only in a faster and more concentrated way.

Despite all the talk about the coming shift to internal demand, China remains heavily dependent on exports and external demand as major drivers of economic growth. It is not a coincidence that its last two slowdowns followed closely on the heels of growth slumps in its two largest foreign markets, Europe and the United States.

Energy demand

Demand reduction

Demand reduction

Demand reduction

China s rebalancing is apparent, first and foremost, in the export sector. Export growth has slowed from its 2001 2008 average of 29 annually to below 10 , making foreign demand a far less critical engine of growth.

No limits were ever imposed on players movements, except by Communist countries. But the demand side was heavily regulated, owing to a rule that clubs could field no more than two foreign players in any single game.

Demand or Supply?

Netanyahu s Useless Demand

Price reflects demand.

Drug demand reduction

Drug demand reduction

Demand savings accounts

Compared to developed countries, most of China s manufacturing enterprises are still implementing product led strategies. This not only fail to adequately meet customer demand, it also affects and restricts China s manufacturing sector from participating in domestic and foreign competition.

Supply, demand, big opportunity.

It's risk and demand.

And thirdly, public demand.

The demand is huge.

World demand and supply

The import tariffs of some foreign goods for daily use for which domestic consumers have enormous demand will be lowered on a trial basis with effect from June this year, and tariff reductions will be extended to more goods over time.

The politicization of foreign aid reflects the same hubris. Even as the US rhetorically champions democracy in the Middle East, its first response to Hamas s victory was to demand that the newly elected government return 50 million in US aid.

As a result, however much the government cuts its spending, its deficit will barely shrink. And if all countries pursue austerity simultaneously, lower demand for each country s goods will lead to lower domestic and foreign consumption, leaving all worse off.

States should also be aware of the need to control the branches of foreign charities established in their territories, and should demand to see certificates of registration, and approval to open an overseas branch from the parent charity's country of origin.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Minister for Foreign Affairs

Minister for Foreign Affairs Minister for Foreign Affairs

We must reduce energy demand.

The price varies with demand.

The World Economy s Impossible Demand

Silicon Valley or Demand Mountain?

We have met this demand.

They all demand emergency attention.