For centuries, the streets of Cairo have been festooned with traditional lanterns to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan. In recent decades, the domestically produced lanterns were replaced by cheaper ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-24
... be taken by multiple stakeholders, and not just the Chief Information Officer, or Chief Digital Officer. The need for digital transformation has never been more apparent than during the pandemic, whe ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-24
... n January by the Democratic Party found that 65 per cent of the 603 respondents said that the city should prepare a strategy to live with the virus, compared to 42 per cent in November. Danny Lau, hon ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-24
... followed by another email in the wake of increasing infected cases among the staff (including drivers), saying that to minimize contagion risk, the driver lounge had been closed until further notice. ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-23
The inflation data for January were shocking. Instead of falling from 5.0% YoY to 4.4% YoY as predicted by the Bloomberg consensus, consumer prices increased 5.1% from last January. Consensus estimate ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-23
... et range) by only 25 bps at a time. It was not always like this. After moving to rate targeting in late 1982, the Fed hiked the federal funds rate by over 1% on one occasion, by 75 bps on three other ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-23
... t forward by one-third of the EU’s 27 member states or by the European Commission with the consent of the European Parliament. The Council must then establish “by unanimity” (excluding the accused) th ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-22
... e trained by NGOs and receive little or no compensation from their governments. In fact, few governments around the world keep records of community health workers or have a way to communicate with the ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-22
... CVD risk by 2025 is 10.6%, meaning that for every 1,000 persons, there would be 106 with CVDs. Furthermore, in 2000, 47.9% of the population aged 65 and above were afflicted with at least one kind of ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-22
... traction by the Asian refiners that are refining greater quantities of US crude. Oman a robust price setting mechanism for Middle East crude The official selling prices are set based on the average m ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-21
... three nearby trails. They are the one-star (five stars being the highest) Village Section, the two-star Nei Lak Shan Section and the four-star Lantau Peak Section. There is an impressive video featuri ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-21
... e powered by smart contracts on the blockchain. But DeFi is not just about disruptive technology. These projects are supported outside the traditional financial services and fintech support structure. ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-21
... n swollen by the multi-dimensional platforms that are able to attack traditional financial services with expansive offerings at the touch of a screen. Indeed, the deployment of AI has been rapid in Ch ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-18
Argentina is about to enter another dysfunctional stand-by agreement with the International Monetary Fund – its 22nd SBA since it joined the IMF in 1956. While the details have not yet been settled, w ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-18
... er issued by a central bank in digital form, and can be simply understood as digital cash, combining the advantages of traditional cash and electronic payments. Unlike existing private sector e-money ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-18
