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Consumer Durables: How Durable Goods Shape Retail Sales, Consumer Spending and Economic Growth
Walk through a typical home in Nairobi, Toronto, or Kuala Lumpur and many of the most valuable items you see were not bought yesterday. A refrigerator may serve a household for a decade, a sofa for several years, and a laptop or television for a substantial period before replacement. Economists generally place products with useful…