What makes a good teacher? How do we measure the successes of an educator? Some say, it’s to do with the number of A*s and As (or 7s, 8s, and 9s) these teachers churn out. Others suggest that it’s ref ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-27
... e sectors makes it difficult to scale up investments, particularly for lenders like the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, which focuses on support for private firms. Moreover, the Intern ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-27
... 500 index makes a net gain during the first five trading days of the calendar year, equities will perform well for the year overall. When I asked my colleagues to check it for the 1950-2014 period, th ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-17
... ces. This makes digital fraud, including card cycling, one of the most dangerous threats to businesses in Hong Kong – especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which constitute more th ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-03
There is something rather arcanely ivory tower-esque about this question – that makes it almost endearing to ponder. And the answer, I’d submit, is a resounding yes: atheists can and indeed should cel ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-23
... ctor that makes the recent policy shifts even more compelling for Hong Kong fintech is the prolonged downturn and headline failures in the crypto market. Investor protection has never been more necess ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-21
... claration makes no substantive mention of the climate-health nexus. It is a glaring omission. The connection between climate and health is deep and multifaceted. Consider, for example, how warming tem ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-19
... rformance makes me confident of their readiness for the next potential crisis. Helicopter money – monetary financing – will work again. Moreover, even fiscally challenged governments that don’t have a ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-14
... rates, it makes sense to “normalize” them. But raising interest rates beyond that, in a quixotic attempt to tame inflation rapidly, will not only be painful now; it will leave long-lasting scars, espe ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-12
... n. “Money makes the world go round” would have been a little too honest. Copyright: Project Syndicate-- Contact us at [email protected] ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-08
... not only makes climate change worse, but also eliminates our best line of defense against it. COP15 offers a major opportunity for governments to achieve a breakthrough – equivalent to the 2015 Paris ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-08
... , is what makes for the intrigue of any nation – not the mundane inanities of bureaucrats, or the edicts passed down from top to bottom, only to be regurgitated by state apparatus or their quasi-equiv ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-02
... t – Putin makes belligerent noises about that, as he does about everything. But some simple math says the balance of risks does not favor the Kremlin. Russia currently exports about eight million barr ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-01
... the WTO, makes clear that this includes environmental objectives, as do subsequent rulings, beginning with a 1996 decision on US gasoline imports. Most notably, the WTO dispute settlement mechanism u ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-30
... t it also makes the business more efficient. For instance, a business can expand the ecosystem to increase the accuracy of cost estimation, budgeting, and financial management. Leveraging the right te ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-29
... law that makes blocking news sites much easier, thus forcing more outlets like Meydan TV, one of the first websites to be banned in 2017, to rely on social media platforms to reach audiences. But whi ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-24
... e finance makes it to this cohort, even though it produces almost one-third of the world’s food and works one-quarter of the world’s agricultural land. Developing a better food system requires politic ...More
EJ Insight2022-11-18
