Health-care delivery in nearly every country has been disrupted by policymakers’ mistaken initial assumption that health systems would quickly win the fight against COVID-19. As the pandemic’s caseloa ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-12
Like farmers planning the following season’s crop, we must now sow the seeds of the post-pandemic future we want. That means putting gender equality and sustainability at the heart of the recovery and ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-09
There is a growing consensus that one or more COVID-19 vaccines will become available at some point in early 2021. Within a year, many people in the United States, and some other countries, will be va ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-09
The outcome of the US presidential election on November 3 will have momentous consequences for America in terms of economic policy, racial justice, the judiciary, health care, and the overall quality ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-08
Having long been buttressed by ample liquidity, financial markets are entering the final quarter of 2020 amid an increasingly tentative global economic recovery, unusual political uncertainties, and l ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-07
By 2050, Africa will be home to 25% of the world’s workforce. And yet there is no guarantee that those workers – especially the growing share of young people among them – will be employed, let alone i ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-07
Why are stock market valuations soaring when the real economy remains so fragile? One factor has become increasingly clear: The crisis has disproportionately affected small businesses and low-income s ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-06
Last week, Germany celebrated the 30th anniversary of its reunification. After years of frustration and gloom, the long-depressed east of the country – the former German Democratic Republic (DDR) – is ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-05
新冠病毒不但導致全球疫情大爆發，也助長假訊息泛濫——有人推銷羥氯喹（hydroxychloroquine）等藥 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 彙編選輯Françoise Barré-Sinoussi、Adeeba Kamarulzaman2020年10月03日
Joe Biden has consistently held a wide polling lead over US President Donald Trump ahead of November’s election. But, despite Trump’s botched response to the COVID-19 pandemic – a failure that has lef ...More
EJ Insight2020-09-30
China’s leaders are currently putting the finishing touches on the country’s 14th Five-Year Plan, which will cover the 2021-25 period. But one aspect of the plan – the so-called dual-circulation strat ...More
EJ Insight2020-09-30
When US Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell delivered his major speech at the Jackson Hole conference of central bankers last month, setting out the results of a yearlong review of the Fed’s monetary pol ...More
EJ Insight2020-09-28
With the world gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers have turned their attention to economic stimulus and financial support of households and firms. As a result, many countries have been dela ...More
EJ Insight2020-09-25
The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare the importance of access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene. As we all know now, hand washing is one of the best frontline defenses against the virus. Yet three ...More
EJ Insight2020-09-21
Zimbabwe was once Africa’s rising star. Boasting robust human capital, considerable natural-resource wealth, and modern infrastructure, it was the continent’s leading producer of crops such as maize, ...More
EJ Insight2020-09-18
The human tragedies and massive economic disruptions caused by COVID-19 have rightly commanded the attention of the public and policymakers for more than six months, and should continue to do so. But ...More
EJ Insight2020-09-17
The pandemic that US President Donald Trump has handled so disastrously – over 200,000 deaths from COVID-19 are expected in the United States by Election Day – is persuading an unprecedented number of ...More
EJ Insight2020-09-15
Last year, a child died of pneumonia every 39 seconds, on average. A form of acute respiratory infection, pneumonia is detectable, treatable, and preventable. Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) – ...More
EJ Insight2020-09-14
「脫鈎」是中美地緣政治角力的核心，這個由美國特朗普政府內部鷹派勢力構想和推動的策略，現已成為美國削弱中國實力的 ...全文
Large swaths of the global economy are exhibiting traditional signs of a V-shaped recovery from the pandemic-induced collapse this spring. The monthly indicators for many countries show vigorous rebou ...More
EJ Insight2020-09-11
