China’s model of economic growth has been a resounding success. With its focus on export promotion, capital investment, and technological catch-up, it has lifted some 800 million people out of poverty ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-03
In March 1977, representatives from 116 countries gathered in Mar del Plata, Argentina, for the inaugural United Nations Water Conference. At the time, the event received very little attention. Global ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-03
英語Catharsis一詞意指淨化，源自希臘語，古希臘哲學家亞里士多德（Aristotle）率先在《詩學》提出 ...全文
今日信報理財投資前沿思考John Mauldin2023年11月03日
As finance ministers and central bankers convened in Marrakesh for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings on October 9-15, they faced an extraordinary confluence of economic an ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-02
Recent data from China has shown encouraging signs of further stabilisation. Last week’s Q3 GDP release beat expectations (4.9% vs. 4.5% consensus). GDP growth was supported by strong consumption, whi ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-02
When Xi Jinping met Vladimir Putin at the Belt and Road summit in Beijing on October 18, the photograph showed a warm handshake and broad smiles. But the two men are anything but equals. Russia’s econ ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-02
Is Hong Kong doing enough to encourage people to have more babies? That would possibly be Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu’s next report card to President Xi Jinping who wants more babies. This week P ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-01
Surveys found that the average European and American spends 90% of his life indoors, and the situation is similar for Hong Kong people with most time being spent at home, office, school or shopping ma ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-01
Hong Kong has been steadily advancing its AI development in data analytics for businesses. The city recognizes the transformative potential of AI and has taken proactive measures to foster its growth. ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-31
While concerns of inflation, monetary policy and a possible recession continue from the previous quarter into the fourth quarter of 2023, an important variable has changed: The economic cycle is furth ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-31
... sales and attract new customers who are eager to stretch their dollar. There are some head-winds however, a recent report has revealed that, in today’s challenging macroeconomic environment, 62% of co ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-30
On October 23, Governor of California Gavin Newsom paid a visit to Hong Kong. In an absolutely jam-packed room, he delivered a lecture that was attended by hundreds of students, faculty, and veterans ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-30
... Around that time, a naive extrapolation based on the difference in growth rates between China and the United States suggested that China’s GDP would overtake America’s by 2021. Some speculated that t ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-27
Fun anecdote. After a cozy, intimate discussion in which I discussed the present state of the Chinese political economy and the rational undergirding its industrial policy in Oxford, I was asked by a ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-27
Rightly concerned about a decline in Japanese universities’ research capabilities, the Japanese government has created a ¥10 trillion ($67 billion) fund to address the problem. While cash accounts for ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-26
Following the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank this month, the Middle East is teetering on the edge of a major conflict, and the rest of the world continues to fra ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-26
... We show that stock prices are more accurate when short ...全文
... he dinner at 9 pm, the staff told us they were so thankful to sign off because the lady boss had already left early to catch the high-speed train to China that night. You would probably have similar f ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-25
These are difficult times for the global economy. With an economic slowdown in most major economies, along with high inflation and escalating cost of living, reasons to be cheerful about the economic ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-25
