... n Denmark two months ago, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, and the European Commission offered a preliminary blueprint for what closer energy coordination might look like. ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-31
In October 2021, two tractors with a large chain stretched between them cleared more than 2,000 hectares of forest in the Brazilian Cerrado, one of the world’s most biodiverse areas. Tragically, such ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-31
... the past two years surged to a total of US$2.8 trillion in the first half of 2021 alone. Compared with Bitcoin (24%), the share of Ether (40%) and Stablecoin (24%) is gradually increasing with the ge ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-31
... Although two-thirds of the adult US population does not have a four-year college degree, the political system rarely responds to their needs and has frequently enacted policies that harm them in favo ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-28
... en almost two job vacancies per unemployed worker over the past year, signaling the tightest labor market since records began in August 2007. Typically, this ratio would be lower than one. Even though ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-28
... for you? Two days ago, whilst sauntering alongside the Central promenade, I was struck by the epiphany: Vienna isn’t a destination. It isn’t a location. Nor is it an ideology. Instead, it is an attit ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-28
... And after two and a half years of COVID-19, the world’s health systems are coming apart at the seams. While the end of the pandemic may be in sight, the virus is still raging. Moreover, monkeypox has ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-27
... there are two other scenarios with less favorable paths of productivity growth. In one of them, India, not China, is the world’s largest economy by 2100. And in the second, productivity falls short of ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-25
... rom these two regions. Some might argue that Hong Kong was already late to the party in cross-border data transfer. But there is still reason for optimism. The inescapable truth is that no vibrant eco ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-25
In the last two years, about 60,000 Protestants in Hong Kong have emigrated, 20 per cent of the total community in the city. Some churches have lost half of their congregations to emigration and the e ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-24
I had the rare pleasure of taking a brief break from work last weekend. So what did I do? I brought along two books – one of which was Kissinger’s latest, Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy, an ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-19
... t time in two years, some people might find it more stringent than going to Mars. That is also why the Rugby 7s, one of the most difficult international sports event tickets to get in Hong Kong, still ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-19
The jockeying for position in the global clean-energy race is underway. The United States joined the field just two months ago with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. Since then, Austria, for ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-19
... front and two sides of the stage. An eye-catching massive wheel with Fortuna (the goddess of fortune) in the centre is seen in the beginning, and is to reappear again at curtain fall having turned a f ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-18
... s home to two of the world’s largest solar projects (in Egypt and Morocco), and two of Africa’s 20 fastest-growing companies in 2022 are in the solar-energy business. From Nigeria to Namibia, countrie ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-18
... core are two priorities: working with at-risk countries to protect every child with vaccines, and improving surveillance to track the spread of the disease. The same strategy is also helping to deliv ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-17
... n’s first two years in office.” If, boosted by these victories, the Democrats perform well in November’s midterm elections, what should define their economic agenda? JBD: “Supply-side progressivism” i ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-17
... reflects two broader facts. The first, is that the Cantonese language is a terrifically rich and robust one when it comes to the vivacity and diversity of its imagery. The second, is that there is so ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-14
... er one or two of the games to discuss his thinking in concrete detail (avoiding a discussion of the early moves, which usually come from computer-aided preparation anyway). As compensation for his tim ...More
EJ Insight2022-10-14
