The global economy is addicted to the relentless – and unsustainable – extraction of natural resources. Yet despite our complete dependence on nature, its contribution – for example, the water used to ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-09
A lifeless blob, a landmass of shredded tissues held together by a briny coagulant, a wreck crawling with mealworms. A whale carcass was found earlier this week in Hong Kong’s eastern waters. Expert ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-08
European currencies have been rebounding strongly versus the U.S. dollar since hitting bottom in late September 2022 during the Gilt crisis when yields on U.K. government bonds surged. The rally in ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-07
... tervention. Fearing China’s dominance in clean-tech supply chains, and recognizing the potential for job creation, the United States has put in place a wide range of industrial policies that support t ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-07
發展局局長甯漢豪在網誌稱，發展局自2009年開始在工務工程項目中推行「新工程合約」模式(New Enginee ...全文
International trade has boosted economic growth in many countries, especially those without abundant natural resources or fixed capital. In addition to creating opportunities for cross-border specia ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-04
We seem to live in an era of rolling financial crisis, which I suspect is the result of a massive build-up of private sector debt. Sometimes these build-ups are accompanied by very high rates of credi ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-04
My current visit to Israel has coincided with a period of unprecedented political turmoil. A radical right-wing government’s package of legislation to disempower the judiciary has started to be adopte ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-02
The US Q2 earnings season is off to a solid start. After 35% of earnings reports, 71% of companies managed to beat pre-season consensus expectations, which would be the highest beat rate since Q2 2022 ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-02
The challenge of talent retention is gaining traction in the City’s policy dialogue for post-covid economy recovery. Per statistics from Census and Statistics Department, the City witnessed a net popu ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-31
... id-century. He also argues that “the Rest” more broadly will pose a growing challenge to the West, which in turn continues to underestimate the challengers. Peyman is hardly the first to predict the r ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-31
... years ago. An average individual is significantly less likely to be a victim of a violent crime or heinous assault, than their counterpart from a century ago. By most indicators of objective life qua ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-31
... spread (e.g. the horizontal plank at the top). Learning must feature both breadth and depth, yet at its core these two dimensions come together - they are not ‘balanced’ or ‘hedged between’, contra t ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-28
... ersistent). Today, a similar clash can be seen in Japan, though there are very different considerations at play. America’s Team Transitory based its stance on the benign inflation projections that wer ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-28
The rapid march of artificial intelligence is not only disrupting conventional notions of work. It is also changing the essence of human identity. Whereas previous technological developments altered h ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-27
By now, most people have heard the demographic prediction that India has already—or is about to—become the world’s most populous nation. Its growth is eclipsing China’s, which has been the world’s lar ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-27
Cities are the nuclei of economic growth in every country. In India, where urbanisation is low which ranks below 60% of global average cities, its cities account for only 3% of the country's land but ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-25
