... Research makes that call, based on a variety of indicators – a role that the BEA officially recognizes. (It is worth noting that institutions that are private nonprofits, like the NBER, also produce ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-20
... erson who makes the right judgment calls. As with any organisation, it is essential to bring together a team of individuals who, each for his or her own part, brings both knowledge and judgment to the ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-19
... e science makes clear that to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change and to build resilience against the effects that are already inevitable, we must end biodiversity loss before 2030. ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-18
... formation makes it easier, cheaper, and safer for people to receive wages from employers, send remittances to family members, and pay for goods and services. Mobile money accounts can better handle hi ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-13
... il prices makes sense as a sanction, but Russia is already selling to India and China at a steep discount, so this is unlikely to have a big impact on the global price. Just a short while ago, the Bid ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-06
... soon. It makes sense, therefore, to target the economics of Putin’s regime and his ability to wage a prolonged war – or a repeated series of wars against Ukraine and potentially others. And here, Put ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-06
... d, and it makes optimising processes and business intelligence more difficult, if not impossible. How to get out ahead of data sovereignty issues Businesses have legal obligations to know where their ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-05
... led. What makes a nation, then? Benedict Anderson posits that the answer rests with ‘imagined communities’. Ernest Gellner envisions the nation to be a unit that could be both pre-political and a-poli ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-04
... at’s what makes this city tick, surely. Such is the way of life. Moreover, what does cultural preservation even mean? Does it mean lavishing a bizarrely large sum of money on ineffectual projects that ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-24
... at's what makes this city tick, surely. Such is the way ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2022年06月24日
... are doing makes me deeply ashamed, not proud of the United Kingdom. I love the country but could not, in all conscience, fight to defend its current government. Does this mean that I am not a patriot? ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-23
... e of this makes sense. Why not home quarantine? Why not remove quarantine for triple-jabbed visitors? Why not embrace a pragmatic mix of pro-wellbeing measures, which factor into consideration the eco ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-22
... subsidies makes clear – is “do what I say, not what I do.” Especially after the Trump years, America no longer holds any claim to the moral high ground, nor does it have the credibility to dispense ad ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-20
... All this makes such a deterioration of relations more probable, with the EU and China being on opposite sides. -- Contact us at [email protected] ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-20
... nt crises makes an even stronger case for a new framework. Greater frequency of extreme weather events, such as flooding and droughts, heighten the risk of infectious and water-borne diseases. Rising ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-17
... n warfare makes a difference. As RAND’s John Arquilla pointed out two decades ago, the outcomes of modern warfare depend not only on whose army wins, but also on “whose story wins.” America’s careful ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-17
... Fed never makes larger moves. Moreover, the Fed must conduct monetary policy with the tools and procedures that it has. If it raises its policy rate by only 0-25 bps this week, even though it wants th ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-15
... law that makes it an offence for a protestor to raise his or her voice loud enough simply to annoy someone else? How much value, if any, can one put on a man who would break an international agreemen ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-10
... oach that makes it easier for people to access goods and services when and where they’re needed. From a business point of view, embedded finance not only generates more sales but also provides insight ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-09
... ice, this makes the information virtually inaccessible to poor-country authorities under most circumstances. But isn’t this just crypto fulfilling its promise of helping citizens bypass corrupt, ineff ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-08