Optimism can be difficult to muster at a time of heightened uncertainty and global turmoil. The 2022 ASDA’A BCW Arab Youth Survey, conducted only a few months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukr ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-15
The first rule of forecasting, the financial journalist Jane Bryant Quinn once observed, is this: give them a forecast or give them a date; just never give them both. So, here’s a not very bold foreca ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-15
... 代的作家斯威夫特（Jonathan Swift），在其《格列佛遊記》中有這樣一幕：身處大人國的格列佛，成了一個 ...全文
The US Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates by 475 basis points over the course of 12 months, in a bid to curb inflation, was bound to be perilous. As should have been expected, it preci ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-12
Over the past three years, a series of overlapping crises has exposed the structural weaknesses in Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies. Coming on the back of rising labor costs and declining ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-11
MSCI, one of the most influential gatekeepers of environmental, social, and governance ratings, is about to downgrade the ESG ratings of 31,000 investment funds in one fell swoop. The dramatic move co ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-11
Why isn't there a McDonald’s outlet on Macdonnell Road? The post went viral at Little Red Book, or Xiaohongshu, over the golden weekend when young mainland visitors were eager to share their unique tr ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-10
Although Britain's global influence has dwindled, its soft power should not be underestimated. The coronation of King Charles III is the latest showcase of its great marketing which, as The Economist ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-10
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?” Mr. Bennet remarked in Pride and Prejudice. I suppose the same question could be asked of writers, and the s ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-10
... resident Donald Trump, and their followers from propagating them. Both Orbán and Trump often point to their support for Israel as proof that they are not anti-Semites. “No president has done more for ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-09
We are raising our youth to become hyper-efficient question-answering machines, but fundamentally constricted askers of questions. For far too long we have equated academic excellence and accomplishme ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-09
In next January’s election, could Taiwan voters choose Terry Gou Tai-ming, founder of Foxconn, as their next president? The island’s most famous businessman is campaigning to be the candidate of the o ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-09
Much has been written on how friendships begin… A chance encounter on the streets. A shared workplace. A neighbourhood in which one is brought up with another. Acquaintances, friends, good friends. So ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-08
