As governments worldwide confront the terrible choice between saving lives from COVID-19 and protecting people’s livelihoods, economic indicators highlight the intensity of the dilemma. Unemployment h ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-29
The German-French proposal for a recovery fund signals that the two largest economies in the EU can compromise and are willing to take a new step towards tighter economic integration. We do not expect ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-29
... e project we work with the HKMA and BOT is a cross-border [CBDC] project, Inthanon-LionRock, involves financial institutions from Thailand and Hong Kong side, such as HSBC and ZA Bank”, leveraging dis ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-28
... sionally, we get sick or stay up all night because of work or entertainment, and the body will fire an alarm signal; if we continue such practice in the long run, the overdraft of the body budget will ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-27
Home is where the work is. Once more, office workers wearing masks crowd the MTR and other public transport during rush hours, but many of their colleagues are still in their jammies and shorts, worki ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-27
... has the power to support livelihoods, increase access to health and education, and improve the lives of people in every country. And the digital revolution in financial technology, or fintech, is exte ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-25
... ue stocks were trading at especially attractive levels. Now that the valuation dispersion has widened further, we believe that value stocks—companies that are (arguably) inexpensive owing to a short-t ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-22
... re is a powerful antidote against pompous and overweening authority. Webster’s dictionary describes it as ‘work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn’. What constitutes human vice or ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-22
... he risks, we have modeled the pandemic’s possible impact on three key sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services: births assisted by skilled health-care providers, including midwives; births taking ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-22
... oint out, we should be taxing it to address these externalities. One recent study estimates that eliminating oil and gas subsidies alone could have reduced global carbon emissions by 5-6% in 2015, and ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-21
It pains me to write this week’s column. But write it I must as a Hong Kong-born. Silence is not an option. I urge readers to share it with as many others as you can in the hope the free world will re ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-21
It pains me to write this week's column. But write it I ...全文
今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2020年05月21日
... students were asked to read two texts and told to answer the question of whether Japan “did more good than harm to China” during the first half of the past century, which of course covered the period ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-20
... eed to be weaned off fossil fuels. Buildings and factories need to become more energy and water-efficient. Ports, roads, electricity grids and other infrastructure has to be built to withstand higher ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-19
