Earlier this month, the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) launched a nearly $1 billion AMR (antimicrobial resistance) Action Fund to support the devel ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-20
Will COVID-19 finally trigger a long-overdue technological disruption of higher education? Throughout the world, sudden mid-semester lockdowns aimed at combating the pandemic forced universities to sw ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-15
The world needs to shift from the current fossil-fuel-based energy system to carbon neutrality. Most obviously, this will require countries to roll out renewable energy and integrate it into the elect ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-14
短短幾個月，新冠肺炎疫情已經對美國經濟和工人造成巨大損害，失業率升至大蕭條以來最高，自今年3月中起有4200萬 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 彙編選輯Laura Tyson, Lenny Mendonca2020年07月11日
For a while now, the most interesting critiques of US President Donald Trump and Trumpism have come from the right. By right, I don’t mean alt-right, radical right, evangelical right, or racist right, ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-10
Since March, I have been more open than other commentators to the possibility of a “V-shaped” recovery from the pandemic-induced downturn (though I have also consistently warned of structural challeng ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-09
The performance of stock markets, especially in the United States, during the coronavirus pandemic seems to defy logic. With cratering demand dragging down investment and employment, what could possib ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-08
Once again, the United States is standing out as a world leader, but not for any reason anyone would want to emulate. In most of the Global North, the daily COVID-19 infection rate is down to around o ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-07
The COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping societies around the world, in part by accelerating the digital revolution that was already underway at the beginning of the year. Since then, corporations have inst ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-06
In just a few short months, the COVID-19 pandemic has done massive damage to the United States economy – and the workers who make it run. Unemployment has already reached its highest level since the G ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-03
COVID-19 has killed more than 500,000 people worldwide, made millions more ill, and continues to wreak havoc. But as the saying goes – and without wishing to downplay this human tragedy in any way – i ...More
EJ Insight2020-07-01
There is no denying that single-use plastic has been a lifesaver in the fight against COVID-19, especially for frontline health workers. It has also facilitated adherence to social-distancing rules, b ...More
EJ Insight2020-06-26
What does the future hold for the global economy? As it stands, the most likely answer, unfortunately, is lower growth, worsening inequality, distorted markets, and rising financial risks. But this ou ...More
EJ Insight2020-06-24
The COVID-19 pandemic should spur us to redefine how we feed humanity. The world now has a unique opportunity to adopt long-term measures to promote healthier diets, encourage farmers to produce a wid ...More
EJ Insight2020-06-23
Our house is on fire,” warned the teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg at last year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. Her pointed words – accusing adults of sitting idly by as the planet bur ...More
EJ Insight2020-06-18
No country has been spared the impact of COVID-19. But some – the world’s most “fragile states” – face a particularly difficult set of challenges. Before the pandemic arrived, Yemen, Sudan, Haiti, Sie ...More
EJ Insight2020-06-17
Last month, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the company would allow its employees, currently working from home in accordance with social-distancing protocols, to stay there for good. Several ot ...More
EJ Insight2020-06-16
毫不奇怪的是，記者精銳盡出走上街頭，報道50年來美國所經歷的規模最大、涉及面也最廣的抗議活動。但令人驚訝的是， ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 彙編選輯Courtney C. Radsch2020年06月13日
Rarely has the promise of biology commanded as much of the world’s attention as it has during the COVID-19 crisis. As the novel coronavirus infects millions worldwide and ravages the global economy, o ...More
EJ Insight2020-06-12
In my recent study of 14 presidents since 1945, Do Morals Matter, I found that Americans want a moral foreign policy, but have been torn over what that means. Americans often see their country as exce ...More
EJ Insight2020-06-11
