Declining coronavirus infection rates and plans to begin easing lockdown measures in some parts of the developed world have provided a ray of hope after weeks of unrelenting gloom. But, for many devel ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-16
Last week, the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers, having acknowledged that nobody is to blame for the COVID-19 crisis, agreed to a deal to mitigate its economic fallout. The agreement includes € ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-16
In Australia, whenever something resembling a crisis comes along, the housing doomsayers will come scurrying out of their dens with proclamations of “Repent! The end is near!”. And for the longest tim ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-15
To mask or not to mask? That is the question. Covid-19 has woken the rest of the world to a practice with which the people of Hong Kong are very familiar. The SARS epidemic brought home the utility of ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-14
The coronavirus has poisoned already bad relations between the mainland and Taiwan. Instead of bringing the two together to fight a common enemy, the epidemic has driven them further apart. The Taiwan ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-14
Despite a deep recession in 2008 and a slow recovery thereafter, the first two decades of the twenty-first century were generally a time of economic progress in most advanced economies. Real (inflatio ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-09
... 經濟增長，將會介乎0.1%到2.3%，為1976年以來所未見的低潮。 相信中國內地及全球各國，特別是倚重貿易的 ...全文
Economists were shocked when US unemployment claims shot up from 281,000 to 3.28 million in just one week from March 14 to March 21. The cause was of course the COVID-19 virus. Specifically, the cause ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-07
The way forward to stabilize food supply I grew up in Yuen Long where jasmine rice and farming were famous half a century ago but have eventually faded out. However, the recent epidemic has driven me ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-06
... hina (PRC). The Basic Law enshrines the basic policies of the PRC regarding the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and provides a solid constitutional basis for the implementation of “One ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-04
... y business. Before that, the lunatic fringe of the protest movement was scaring people from venturing out of an evening, lest they encounter some of the vandals at work. But both these forces were ope ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-01
Almost all of Hong Kong’s foods are imported. More than half of rice is from Thailand, while Vietnam supplies 25%. As for pork, since the outbreak of African Swine Fever last year, Hong Kong has reduc ...More
EJ Insight2020-04-01
Three men received jail sentences ranging from 10 days to three months after they were found guilty of breaching the government's self-quarantine orders. Sing Kin Kung-kai, 31, was found to have given ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-31
