... ed of the central government’s introduction of the National Security Law, why compound Hong Kong’s misery by undermining its trading status? How could such a step be regarded as assisting the people o ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-06
... European Central Bank comes to a broadly similar conclusion. True, both studies acknowledge great uncertainty, and policy matters: a Europe-wide mechanism to share gas resources would even the burden ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-04
... lemma for central bankers. Because they care about anchoring inflation expectations, they need to normalize monetary policy quickly, even though that will lead to a further slowdown and possibly a rec ...More
EJ Insight2022-04-01
... from Q2. Central government spending has been slow so far (YTD at 1.7%), but is set to increase, and infrastructure spending by local governments will ramp up. In addition, the relaxation of real est ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-31
... Crimea is central to Russian naval power. Ukraine and the West should agree to allow the status quo of Russian control over Crimea to continue, though would likely still claim that the peninsula’s sei ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-29
... hart of a central coordination platform (the “Platform”), which is worthy of reference by the government. There are three branches under the Platform, namely: (1) case handling; (2) supply of material ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-28
... e Russian central bank's foreign currency reserves, compared with just 0.1 per cent in June 2017. In the same period, Moscow's U.S. dollar holdings dropped to 16.4 per cent from 46.3 per cent. So the ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-28
... ership as central components of climate policy and action strategies. This represents clear recognition that the transition to net zero will be possible only through active citizenship, with women pla ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-25
To be effective, economic sanctions depend on multilateral coordination. Freezing the Russian central bank’s holdings and kicking Russian banks out of the SWIFT financial messaging system for internat ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-24
... nticipate central banks’ easing monetary policy, the price of gold tends to react positively. The opposite tends to happen when investors come to expect tighter central bank policy: the prospect of hi ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-23
... r cent in Central and Southern Asia and just 30 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa. The good news, according to members of the Advisory Board of Pictet Asset Management’s Water strategy, is that private in ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-23
... 銀行PT Bank Central Asia、PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia及電訊集團PT ...全文
... eather in Central America, fires and storms in North America, flooding across Europe and Asia, and drought in Africa are forcing people to move. Last year, the Red Cross confirmed that it was already ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-16
... reak. The central government is very angry with Carrie Lam and her administration. This central control is becoming more evident. So what is the point of submitting reports and papers to the SAR gover ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-14
... ents. The central bank’s securities and deposits have been frozen, rendering it incapable of stemming the ruble’s fall. It is similarly unable to act as a lender of last resort to financial institutio ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-14
... ation’ of central government policies, China found itself with a dangerously low stockpile of coal in September 2021.This episode highlighted China’s over-reliance on coal and the complexities of such ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-11
... e Russian central bank’s foreign-exchange reserves. In one fell swoop, Russia has been locked out of international finance. No Westerner will dare interact with Russian financial institutions for the ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-10
... ze on the central bank’s assets and the exclusion of selected Russian banks from SWIFT, the financial messaging system that enables most international bank payments, are bringing the economy to its kn ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-09
... Shatin to Central Link. Contentious debates are inevitable during the rezoning process when precious open space in the highly dense urban districts is used for housing development. Opposition mainly r ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-09
... nores the central objective of competition policy, which is to help consumers, not competitors. For example, when a firm lowers its prices below those charged by other firms, those other firms are “di ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-07
