A megadrought – the worst in 1,200 years – has been ravaging the American West for two decades, fueling wildfires and exacerbating the region’s chronic water shortages. As global temperatures continue ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-30
The tentative deal that was just struck to raise the United States’ debt ceiling won’t make the problem go away. Partisan standoffs over the federal debt limit have become a predictable feature of Ame ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-30
... even death. Prior to Salk’s discovery, between 25,000 and 50,000 cases were recorded each year in the United States alone, and little was known about how the virus spread. Salk created his injectable ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-25
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
