... think of”. This treasure-hunting spot is the Camel Paint Building, which stole the media limelight after a famous rice noodle shop Kwong Wing Mixian was ordered to shut down because it did not have t ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-30
With a lack of ground-breaking technological innovation over the past few decades in the highly industrialised countries, the labour productivity growth there has diminished. This is the conclusion of ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-30
... zeitgeist. There’s no escape from it - not just as a concept, but also on a substantive level: from the applications we use to the snazzier home appliances that we may have installed, AI is likely to ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-30
... narratives. The fossil-fuel industry is a prime example. In a desperate effort to deflect attention from their historical responsibility for climate change, oil and gas companies have been touting var ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-30
... 估計平均每年高達約1.3萬億美元，相當於世界本地生產總值（GDP）的0.2%左右。2018年加州森林大火的損失 ...全文
In the BYD 2022 annual report communication meeting, Chairman of the carmaker Wang Chuanfu considered autonomous driving (AD) as impractical and misleading, saying that it was a “false promise”. He be ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-29
When I coined the BRIC acronym back in 2001, my primary point was that global governance would need to adjust to incorporate the world’s largest emerging economies. Not only did Brazil, Russia, India, ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-28
In February 1950, then Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (a junior senator from Wisconsin) declared that there were 205 card-carrying Communists employed in the US Department of State. With irreverent noncha ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-28
... d too high. I stand by the guesswork despite Biden’s sharply worded comments of late. At a fundraiser two weeks ago, he warned that China’s struggles with high unemployment and an aging work force mak ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-25
At least half of the global population lacks access to essential health services, and health-care expenses push almost 100 million people into extreme poverty each year. How scarce resources are distr ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-25
“The world, as we know it, is becoming increasingly multi-polar.” This is a proposition oft-trotted out to describe or highlight the significance of events such as the ongoing BRICS Summit in Johannes ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-25
In just one year, inflation in the United States has fallen from a peak of about 9% to just 3%. Standard economic models suggest that such rapid disinflation would be possible only with a large increa ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-18
Disruptive technologies are rarely welcomed by workers or others with a significant stake in the status quo. Innovation requires adaptation, and adaptation is costly. Powerful incumbents’ resistance t ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-17
... tervention. Fearing China’s dominance in clean-tech supply chains, and recognizing the potential for job creation, the United States has put in place a wide range of industrial policies that support t ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-17
