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
From Jamaica to Palau and Norway to Indonesia, the impact of the COVID-19 crisis is global, and national recovery efforts must be globally focused to seize shared opportunities. Nowhere is this more e ...More
EJ Insight2020-06-09
Governments around the world are responding forcefully to the COVID-19 crisis with a combined fiscal and monetary response that has already reached 10% of global GDP. Yet according to the latest globa ...More
EJ Insight2020-06-09
The post-pandemic world economy seems likely to be a far less globalized economy, with political leaders and publics rejecting openness in a manner unlike anything seen since the tariff wars and compe ...More
EJ Insight2020-06-05
Could the United States be facing a reprise of the summer of 1968? Then, too, the world saw images of popular rage boiling over in America, as mostly African-American inner cities went up in flames, a ...More
EJ Insight2020-06-04
Scientists have little doubt: the destruction of nature makes humanity increasingly vulnerable to disease outbreaks like the COVID-19 pandemic, which has sickened millions, killed hundreds of thousand ...More
EJ Insight2020-06-03
各地互相連繫愈趨緊密,成為現代世界的關鍵特徵,人、貨物、能源、電郵、電視和電台訊號、數據、毒品、恐怖分子、武器 ...全文
As governments worldwide confront the terrible choice between saving lives from COVID-19 and protecting people’s livelihoods, economic indicators highlight the intensity of the dilemma. Unemployment h ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-29
The World Bank’s International Comparison Program has just released its latest measures of price levels and GDP across 176 countries, and the results are striking. For the first time ever, the ICP fin ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-29
To most Nigerians, mental illness is “when someone starts running around naked.” It is a shocking misconception, yet a full 70% of respondents to a recent mental-health survey – the country’s largest ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-27
Today, “mobile money” – a service enabling people to send, receive, and store money on a cellphone – allows a market trader in Kenya to borrow a modest amount at sunrise to buy her stock, and then pay ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-25
The new Franco-German proposal for a €500 billion ($547 billion) European recovery fund could turn out to be the most important historic consequence of the coronavirus. It is even conceivable that the ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-22
Last month, Sheuly rushed into a Dhaka hospital in need of emergency treatment. The 25-year-old Bangladeshi woman had just given birth at home – thinking it a safer setting than the hospital during a ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-22
In addition to its health and human toll, the COVID-19 pandemic is threatening to reverse much of the progress that developing countries have made in reducing poverty over the last 20 years. Substanti ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-21
隨着世界竭盡全力遏制新冠病毒,並減輕對我們生活和生計所造成的影響,每個人都應當清楚知道,國際合作是打贏這場戰疫 ...全文
Nothing highlights the importance of reliable news quite like a crisis. And yet, as the COVID-19 pandemic puts journalists under intensifying pressure to deliver that news, it is also upending their i ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-15
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the fragility of the world order. Governments have sought to limit the spread of the virus through lockdowns and travel restrictions, which have stalled economies a ...More
EJ Insight2020-05-13