Essayist George Santayana once quipped the above, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” At face value, this aphorism is rather apt and intuitive. After all, history sheds li ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-24
... obal South. But multilateral financial institutions increasingly recognize the need to evolve to remain relevant in light of new global challenges, and world leaders are paying attention to innovative ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-23
The importance of the housing market cannot be overstated: we all need a place to live, and our personal wealth is often closely tied to property. For economists, the market is of particular interest ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-23
How should we come to understand success? There exists a plethora of metrics out there. One’s wealth and net worth, tracked approximately by one’s income and occupational class. One’s so-called ‘socia ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-23
The Chinese are better educated than at any time in the country’s history – this year a record 11.6 million will graduate from universities. But youth employment – those between 16 and 24 – reached 20 ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-22
Last year, China suffered its most intense heatwave, with nearly one billion people experiencing temperatures exceeding 35°C. This year, the China Meteorological Administration has warned that more ex ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-19
... population. And the momentum is followed by the younger generation, this can show us the way to pave for a brighter future. The Esri China (HK) 25th Anniversary STEAM Cup – Multi-Subjects ArcGIS Story ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-18
During my lengthy career in finance, I picked up several market heuristics that have generally proven more useful than not. Every January, for example, I remember the “five-day rule,” which holds that ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-18
The debate about how to achieve climate goals – most notably, the transition to net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases – has fueled speculation that the world will deglobalize. Some argue that, since ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-17
Optimism can be difficult to muster at a time of heightened uncertainty and global turmoil. The 2022 ASDA’A BCW Arab Youth Survey, conducted only a few months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukr ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-15
The first rule of forecasting, the financial journalist Jane Bryant Quinn once observed, is this: give them a forecast or give them a date; just never give them both. So, here’s a not very bold foreca ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-15
... operations.）」之後他就引用數據指出，這10個工人每日可以產針48000支，每人平均產量4800支， ...全文
Over the past three years, a series of overlapping crises has exposed the structural weaknesses in Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies. Coming on the back of rising labor costs and declining ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-11
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?” Mr. Bennet remarked in Pride and Prejudice. I suppose the same question could be asked of writers, and the s ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-10
When political leaders, and their admirers, claim that George Soros, the Hungarian-American-Jewish philanthropist, is pulling the strings of world affairs, we know that anti-Semitism is not far off. B ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-09
We are raising our youth to become hyper-efficient question-answering machines, but fundamentally constricted askers of questions. For far too long we have equated academic excellence and accomplishme ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-09
