The year 2020 was unforgettable for all of us, and tragic for many. No one had imagined that a lethal virus originating in horseshoe bats could spread so fast and upend our lives so thoroughly. And in ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-15
Someone should send Chief Executive Carrie Lam some flowers. Well, her popularity has bounced back to reach a two-year high. The Hong Kong Public Opinion Program concluded in its latest survey that he ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-14
The global race to achieve net-zero greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions as soon as possible is also a race to realize a new kind of abundance: of public health, vibrant nature, good jobs, greater equality, ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-12
When COVID-19 arrived, firms, workers, and consumers had to adapt quickly in order to continue operating under the constraints that the pandemic imposed. As vaccines enable a resumption of more “norma ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-09
When G20 finance ministers meet in Venice on July 9-10, they should adopt a plan to immunize the world against COVID-19. Every vaccine-producing country will be in the room: the United States, the Uni ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-08
The question about Hong Kong opening borders is not why and how, but when. Clearly there have been more than four weeks of zero local infection on an uninterrupted basis, a respectable track record un ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-07
Protectionism is on the rise in many parts of the world, and the COVID-19 pandemic is only partly to blame. This is hardly a new phenomenon. When I was Indonesia’s trade minister a decade ago, trade l ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-06
China’s early and sustained economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic was reflected in a strong performance last year. However, many might be surprised to learn that 50% of Chinese stocks actual ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-06
The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis like no other. In 2020, it plunged the global economy into its deepest recession since World War II. But, after a year in the doldrums, Europe’s private firms and hou ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-06
The current disconnect between market calm and underlying social tensions is perhaps nowhere more acute than in Latin America. The question is how much longer this glaring dissonance can continue. For ...More
EJ Insight2021-07-02
Any hope that Donald Trump’s messy departure from the White House would at least restore a modicum of calm to the world must now be discounted. Already, there is a dangerous new international threat: ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-30
