Opinion polls in the United States have long pointed to the strong possibility of a Democratic Party sweep in the election on November 3, with Joe Biden winning the presidency and Democrats gaining co ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-28
In a few days, Americans will choose a president. Opinion polling suggests that voters favor former Vice President Joe Biden when it comes to social policy, foreign policy, the environment, and managi ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-27
This month, delegates from governments around the world are meeting (virtually) for a crucial, albeit under-the-radar, climate summit at the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO). T ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-23
IPO, they said, is all about timing. Even pig will fly in a bull market. Hong Kong’s IPO market in the past year was spurred by Jack Ma, whose Alibaba Group launched a secondary listing last November ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-21
The US recovery is losing momentum. Job growth is slowing, the economy is still down 10.7 million jobs since February, and 36% of unemployed workers are now classified as “permanently unemployed.” The ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-20
The announcement of this year’s Nobel Prize laureates should remind us of the many contributions basic science has made to contemporary life. With COVID-19 ravaging much of humanity, and the world anx ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-19
The latest edition of the United Nations’ Global Biodiversity Outlook, published by the Convention on Biological Diversity, makes for bleak reading. As the report notes, biodiversity is essential to a ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-16
At the start of the year, when COVID-19 was ravaging Wuhan, China, and beginning to envelop the West, I warned that the crisis would likely be replicated across much of the developing world, with sign ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-16
While much of the hand wringing over China has abated somewhat during the COVID-19 crisis, the fears animating Western attitudes toward that country have not disappeared, and could resurface at any mo ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-14
In the first several months of the COVID-19 crisis – the acute phase – the main economic fallout was a liquidity crunch, which governments countered with aggressive monetary and fiscal stimulus. But n ...More
EJ Insight2020-10-13
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
