When I was growing up in northern India’s Kashmir Valley, my physician father would often accompany me when I received my annual vaccinations. I used to ask him how vaccines worked and where they were ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-12
... example, were annual growth in total factor productivity in the United States to rise to 2%, from the 0.5% experienced in the five years before COVID-19, the GDP growth rate would double from the 1.5 ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-11
... ent goes, we should leave India be, and have Indian citizens bear the brunt of their government’s mismanagement – after all, it’s a dog-eat-dog world out there, and Malthus could well have had a point ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-11
... 1 percent were living below the poverty line according ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightA Hong Konger2021年05月11日
... people.” We don’t need this op-ed to affirm such nuggets of wisdom – all we need is to turn towards the administration, and its heavy-handed rhetorical emphasis on combating inequality over the recen ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-10
... on elders were treated in emergency departments for fall injuries each year. The resulting medical costs were as high as US$50 billion each year. It is also estimated that by 2030, falls will cause 7 ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-10
The only way to end the COVID-19 pandemic is to immunize enough people worldwide. The slogan “no one is safe until we are all safe” captures the epidemiological reality we face. Outbreaks anywhere cou ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-07
Vaccinations are not going well in Hong Kong. Uptake is ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年05月06日
... ince last weekend, the government found three infected cases after launching a mandatory test for all 370,000 foreign maids. It went even further to require the maids to get injection before they star ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-05
... e, and by well over 99% since the first panels found their way onto people’s roofs in the early 1980s. As a result, global solar PV generation has increased rapidly, with projections pointing to a fur ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-05
... jump. But we cannot know how much inflation this reshuffling will cause, because we have not really seen anything like it before. Economists will have a lot to learn this year about the short-term int ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-05
... under the weight of gentrification and political polari ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年05月05日
Vaccinations are not going well in Hong Kong. Uptake is extraordinarily slow – especially as compared with other developed countries or regions. Israel, for one, has a population 1.5 million more than ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-04
... apometer. We can be certain sure that had he been around when Carrie was forced to move out of her government quarters into a serviced flat, Dr. Lam, an expert in algebraic topography would have known ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-04
Nomadland reveals an America driven apart by sociocultural divides, economic downturn, and the crumbling of communities and neighbourhoods under the weight of gentrification and political polarisation ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-03
