When the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, Afghanistan had only 300 ventilators and two intensive-care units. Early epidemiological models predicted that the country, with a population of about 3 ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-03
Economic growth returned to China in late 2020, and with it came capacity expansion for oil refineries Four Chinese refinery projects in development could make up more than the entire capacity of the ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-02
A century ago, an influenza pandemic killed more people than died in World War I. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic has killed more Americans than died in all US wars since 1945. A big difference, however, ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-02
US President Joe Biden’s first months in office have been impressive. The number of COVID-19 vaccines that have been administered is more than twice what he promised, and the spread of the coronavirus ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-01
U.S. crude oil exports to Asia reached a record in 2020, and increased crude demand in the region is expected to continue. One of the effects of China’s early economic recovery from COVID was a rise i ...More
EJ Insight2021-06-01
The Canadian dollar (CAD) has made strong gains on the back of surging commodity prices. Year-to-date, the currency has gained around 5% against the US dollar and 6% in trade weighted terms. While rei ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-31
華新手袋國際控股(02683) 柬埔寨生產設施在COVID-19於柬埔寨最近發展下的最新重開情況(518KB, ...全文
The proper functioning of any interconnected economic system depends on trust. And a global system that has been designed by advanced economies requires a significant level of buy-in from the developi ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-28
Unlike the United States, Europe, and other early industrializers whose carbon dioxide emissions have largely already peaked, most other countries were not concerned about climate change until recentl ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-27
In 1944, Friedrich A. Hayek suggested that the spontaneous order of markets was inherently superior to the supposedly dynamism-draining totalitarian order of communist or fascist regimes. The ensuing ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-27
“There are three kinds of lies,” Mark Twain famously wrote. “Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Too often, the COVID-19 crisis has lent support to the suspicions Twain’s bon mot expresses. Data are c ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-27
After the most severe global recession in decades, private and official forecasters are increasingly optimistic that world output will recover strongly this year and thereafter. But the coming expansi ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-26
“If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it” said Shakespeare’s Count Orsino in Twelfth Night. Sadly, the Hong Kong government is tone deaf. The music of which Shakespeare wrote was l ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-25
遠大醫藥(00512) 自願性公告: 本集團的全球創新產品 STC3141 在比利時完成COVID-19的 I ...全文
