... , while a surplus of psychiatric nurses and pharmacists is expected, the bureau said. In its report on healthcare manpower planning, the FHB made 10 recommendations to alleviate the situation, includi ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-15
... o use its surplus financial reserves to create infrastructure that helps poor countries and enhances international trade, it will be providing what can be seen as a global public good. Of course, Chin ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-13
... hose with surplus money, are transformed through banking into a more familiar form that is a better match with the risk appetite of those who have surplus money. The transformation of risks involves t ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-12
The public interest in finance Finance is essentially quite a simple area of activity, at least in terms of its purpose. In any economy, there are those with a surplus of money – for example, the sala ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-05
... igh trade surplus for China (and big trade deficit for the US) under US trade reporting rules. One factor the Chinese report cites is what it calls economic globalization, which has resulted in "the t ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-01
... rge trade surpluses with the United States, said he would be discussing trade with Phuc, as well as North Korea. Washington has been seeking support for efforts to pressure North Korea to drop its nuc ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-01
... ilize the surplus money that they have and receive a return for it that, in their opinion, is commensurate with the risks being taken, instead of placing it unproductively and perhaps riskily under th ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-29
... a's trade surplus with the US by the end of the year. The US also signaled that it was eager to export more liquefied natural gas (LNG), saying China could negotiate any type of contract, including lo ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-12
... t-account surplus. In 2016, Germany ran a current-account surplus of roughly 270 billion euro (US$297 billion), or 8.6 percent of GDP, making it an obvious target of Trump’s ire. And its bilateral tra ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-12
... h a trade surplus of US$38.05 billion for the month, the General Administration of Customs said. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected April shipments from the world's largest exporter to have risen ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-08
... a savings-surplus country. As a rich country, the US should be financing industrialization and development around the world, so that emerging countries can purchase US manufacturing exports. Instead, ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-04
... ficit and surplus countries – and thus a gap between actual and potential growth. With the SDR providing a stronger glue at the international monetary system’s core, prudential currency diversificatio ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-25
... t-account surplus countries. Their embrace of economic ignorance could lead to disaster. The current-account balance, measuring the balance of trade in goods, services, net factor income, and transfer ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-21
... financial surplus and reserves, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. Wu Chi-wai, chairman of the Democratic Party, said government expenditures are unable to help the public share the economic gain ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-13
... t account surplus, a "significant" bilateral trade surplus with the United States, and persistent one-way intervention in foreign exchange markets. The Treasury is required to demand special talks wit ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-06
... lted in a surplus of men. Under the one-child policy, which was abolished just recently, this preference for sons, who parents believe would support them during their old age, led to widespread infant ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-03
... a’s trade surplus peaked at 9 percent of GDP in 2007, it adjusted to the receding price competitiveness: it has been less than half that level each year since 2010. In 2014, as the Chinese economy slo ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-23
... he fiscal surplus. Six times he cried wolf that the government’s balance sheet would sink into the red, yet that never happened. For instance, in his budget for financial year 2010/11, Tsang warned of ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-22
... ge budget surplus, the new government will also be able to invest much more in both human and physical infrastructure – efforts that the coalition’s main parties have advocated. The authorities are a ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-22
... the huge surplus for long-term interests. In fact, Chan has delivered a sensible budget. It has followed the principles of keeping expenditures within the limits of revenues, and committing resources ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-24
