When former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro came to power in January 2019, one of his first acts in office was to abolish the National Food and Nutrition Security Council (CONSEA), a globally laude ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-26
In a world beset by rising temperatures, extreme weather patterns, and escalating natural disasters, the urgency of decisive action on climate change and the threat of future pandemics has never been ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-26
Innovation can have a profound effect on our lives. Thanks to technological advances that reduced the price of solar energy by nearly 90% between 2009 and 2019, the green-energy transition is within r ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-23
Do we possess the freedom to think? There are really two questions embedded within this. The first, concerns the normative. Do we possess a reasonable claim, or liberty (both moralised concepts) to th ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-23
French President Emmanuel Macron’s Summit for a New Global Financing Pact, being held in Paris this week, is a historic opportunity to deliver deep financial reforms that support development and bolst ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-22
How far would a local school go to make its students smarter? Take Salesians of Don Bosco Ng Siu Mui Secondary School, a boy school in Kwai Hing that went the extra mile to stimulate the young mind wi ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-21
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited China over the weekend of June 17 - 18. His visit saw him engage in extensive talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, China’s top diplomat Wang Yi, a ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-21
As the third year of central bank tightening continues, the difficulty in identifying the peak in policy rates has emerged as one of the cycle's prominent hallmarks. However, several factors point to ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-21
... 介紹DDC的業務: We are a leading content driven (i.e. using c ...全文
The recovery of the equities market since the beginning of the year has benefitted from two factors. On the one hand, even though macro data remains weak, it has struggled at low levels. Macro momentu ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-20
... years. However, this revolutionary technology may also pose unprecedented threats to personal privacy and network security. Today, technology giants have access to big data, which can predict individ ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-20
... s. “Today we witnessed the most evil and heinous abuse of power in the history of our country,” he said. “It’s a political persecution like something straight out of a fascist or communist nation. Whe ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-19
... 《陪我講Shall We Talk》,仍然是劍橋腔的廣東話。一出來便讓你慶幸他仍在香港,你也仍在香港。 香港有 ...全文
Like electricity and artificial intelligence, biotechnology is poised to drive a general-purpose leap in human history. Offering the ability to manipulate the very essence of life as we know it, biote ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-16
Conservatives often make a big show of worrying about the debt burden that we are passing on to our children. This moral argument featured prominently in congressional Republicans’ refusal to support ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-15
... people between ages 15 to 24 there have been between 900 to 1,000 deaths by suicide every year over the last decade. Unquestionably, the restrictions imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic effected disa ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-15
I cannot say I know former Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Chief Executive Paul Chow Man-yiu well. In fact, I could not recall if I ever had an interview or a story about him. But I attended his annu ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-14
Fiction writers have long imagined scenarios in which every human action is monitored by some malign centralized authority. But now, despite their warnings, we find ourselves careening toward a dystop ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-14
... utely in awe. The rich history and adversity associated with ascending this iconic mountain only add to its allure. Summiting Everest becomes a surmountable challenge to a few and only a deep sense of ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-13