The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the weaknesses and lack of preparedness of health systems globally. When the virus was at its peak, many low- and middle-income countries struggled to save lives whil ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-07
... dire in lower-income African countries. The continent’s population has reached 1.4 billion and could double by 2050, while agricultural productivity, despite improvement, remains significantly below g ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-06
My book on the economic history of the twentieth century, published last fall, did not include a chapter on the question of the future or “what we should do next,” because my frequent co-author, Steph ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-06
... otagonist were much subtler, in a way, than the naked violence to which Chinese pedestrians are subject on the streets of San Francisco and New York. It’s instead a low-intensity yet perennial mixture ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-03
A few months back I sat down with a couple of friends from a leading university in Hong Kong – and we had a terrific, electrifying chat about how we could bring Effective Altruism (EA) to the city. Ma ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-03
... vering between 10th and 11th from 2018 to 2020. However, it has plummeted to 26th this year with a one-year pause in 2021, reflecting Hong Kong's poor economic situation in recent years. The ICIM rank ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-02
... brations, we find ourselves facing a challenging landscape. Inflation is rising rapidly, Singapore, for example, has introduced a higher rate of GST, and in the tech sector we’re seeing a wave of layo ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-02
Many of those who attended this year’s meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos were struck by the jubilant mood of the CEOs in attendance. It was hard to reconcile the optimism of these business ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-02
Call it the little blossoming spring, as the local saying goes. From Sun Hung Kai Properties to its rivals to agents such as Centaline, all honchos would say the property market would go up between fi ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-01
... much can we rely on “simple,” preferably “cheap,” technofixes? Can climate change be addressed by counting on people to switch to lower-carbon technologies, or will it take more fundamental changes t ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-01
Our world has become both confusing and confused. The international economy works well, but the political economy is mired in hostility toward markets, frustration at globalization, and skepticism abo ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-31
The Bank of Japan (BoJ) surprised markets on Wednesday by keeping its Yield Curve Control (YCC) policy unchanged. The BoJ’s decision temporarily pushed Japanese government bond (JGB) yields lower and ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-31
... librium – were effectively useless. And, second, those who confidently asserted that it would take five years of pain to wring inflation out of the system have already been refuted. Inflation has fall ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-30
What makes a good teacher? How do we measure the successes of an educator? Some say, it’s to do with the number of A*s and As (or 7s, 8s, and 9s) these teachers churn out. Others suggest that it’s ref ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-27
Recent deceleration in U.S. inflation levels notably changed expectations for economic outcomes related to monetary policy. While inflation moderation supports markets, we do not believe that the full ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-27
... 時，香港便告訴外界「We are back」，奇怪的是，澳門的農曆年有煙花、有花車，香港卻什麼也沒有，都是本地 ...全文
Everyone agrees that, after the end of Zero-Covid, China’s economy will recover in 2023. But by how much? Mainstream banks predict GDP growth of between 4 per cent and 5.9 per cent. The Rhodium Group ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-26
... tive that we refrain from romanticising the suspect in question, whilst concurrently seeking to understand both their motives, and the structural forces that yielded such abhorrent atrocities. So how ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-26
