... ry budget surplus (excluding interest payments) of 3.5 percent of GDP by 2018. Economists around the world have condemned that target as punitive because aiming for it will inevitably result in a deep ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-30
... t-account surplus growing to 10 percent of GDP in 2008. But such high surpluses are ultimately impossible to sustain. There simply is not enough import demand in the world to absorb ever-growing Chine ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-22
... operating surplus for 2014, helped by initial payments from developers and sales from several completed projects. It made a loss of HK$2.3 billion for the 2013-2014 financial year. URA said it expects ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-17
... an online surplus food platform. Professor Cheung Yan-leung, chairman of the fund, said it plans to earmark HK$1 million in seed capital for setting up the platform, through which food donors and rela ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-15
... ves and a surplus of factors that reduce returns. These include restrictive regulations that reduce firms’ ability to undertake new activities or enter new markets, especially across borders. The OECD ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-11
... to divert surplus capacity abroad amid an economic slowdown at home, or to diversify the US$4 trillion foreign exchange reserves. These arguments are plausible but secondary. A high-profile project of ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-08
... an export surplus of US$7.9 billion during the past 30 months. The actual capital outflow is about US$160 billion in that period. Some of this money has flowed overseas legally but some left the count ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-26
... t account surplus are also declining, he noted. -- Contact us at [email protected] JH/JP/RC ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-22
... ing their surplus cash, last year. Central banks in Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland have also imposed negative policy rates of between minus 0.25 per cent and minus 0.75 per cent as they battle deflat ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-20
... sult in a surplus of 110 billion yuan. This speculation, however, became the catalyst for a deep correction. Market gains have gone too far over the past month, and the market is under increasing pre ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-06
... a primary surplus of 3 percent of GDP. "The IMF thinks the gap between the two realities is very large right now," FT cited a senior official involved in the talks as saying. Athens, which is resisti ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
... sts, when surplus labor from the farm sector dries up and wages rise rapidly. The term refers to the views of Nobel laureate in economics William Arthur Lewis, who in the 1950s argued that a developin ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
... t account surplus, which was already a whopping 8 percent of gross domestic product last year. With external surpluses also rising in other countries of the eurozone core, the monetary union’s overal ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-04
... ion trade surplus with Southeast Asia's biggest economy. Brazil is at risk of losing a major military export deal to Indonesia because of the dispute over the executions. Australians Myuran Sukumaran ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-29
... e, to New Surplus International Investment Ltd., which is indirectly controlled by Gao, for HK$1.54 billion (US$199 million) or HK$1.19 per share. The transaction price is unchanged from the stock's c ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-28
... there is surplus in cross-border supply. Onions are sold at 3.5 yuan per kg, six times the normal price in China, while Indian lettuce for Hong Kong fetches 7.8 yuan per kg at the supermarket as comp ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-21
... antage of surplus plot ratio from old residential buildings in order to build large luxury homes, maximizing profit. By law, the URA has the power to seize old residential buildings, effectively accou ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-21
... t account surplus has stood near 7 percent of GDP – bigger than China’s – for two years and is likely to grow even larger, owing to the euro’s recent depreciation. Meanwhile, most other eurozone count ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-20
... , utilize surplus capacity, and help slow the rapid build-up of foreign exchange reserves. Inbound FDI in China rose just 1.7 percent in 2014, the slackest pace since 2012. That weak performance highl ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-16
... nt budget surplus had also varied widely with the actual figure. Given his wrong projections, one can only conclude that he may be not that competent in investment analysis. Tsang's recent comments ca ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-14
