The role of corporate boards has never been more important, nor subject to as much scrutiny, as it is today. The technological, environmental, geopolitical, and socioeconomic transformations of the pa ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-21
As the world’s business elites trek to Davos for their annual gathering, people should be asking a simple question: Have they overcome their infatuation with US President Donald Trump? Two years ago, ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-20
受鄰近山火的濃煙影響，坎培拉本月曾錄得世界最惡劣空氣質素指數，讀數較官方的危害健康門檻高20倍，而該市近日也經 ...全文
For many firms in emerging and developing economies, emulating the success of the likes of Samsung and Hyundai may seem like an impossible dream. But the rapid economic growth of Japan, South Korea, a ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
At the start of a new decade, many commentators are understandably focused on the health of the global economy. Gross domestic product growth this decade most likely will be lower than during the teen ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
時為1990年8月5日，薩達姆管治的伊拉克剛入侵並征服整個科威特，當時的美國總統老布殊在白宮南草坪上發言時，發 ...全文
Most people have never heard of the World Trade Organization’s moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions. And yet it may be one of the most important trade deals in recent history, give ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-09
There is an overwhelming consensus among scientists that this decade will be the last window for humanity to change the current global trajectory of carbon dioxide emissions so that the world can get ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
For a half-century, American corporations (and many others around the world) have embraced shareholder primacy, which holds that the only responsibility of business is to maximize profits. But this pr ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-07
In recent years, fears of a new cold war between the United States and China have been proliferating. But the tensions between the two powers would be better described as a “cool war,” characterized n ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-03
For more than a decade, China has been haunted by the prospect of getting stuck at an income level below that of the developed world (the “middle-income trap”). But the country’s economy is well on it ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-03
It is increasingly clear that the European Union was not built to be a global actor. The EU is a strictly European idea, designed to bring peace and prosperity to a region ravaged by centuries of ince ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-30
Financial markets were cheered recently by the news that the United States and China have reached a “phase one” deal to prevent further escalation of their bilateral trade war. But there is actually v ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-24
在決定歐盟成員國資格問題的英國大選舉行前僅僅不到兩周，英吉利海峽兩岸的焦慮情緒均在持續上升。由於民調明確顯示約 ...全文
北約組織雖然曾被多次看扁，但依然存在。不過，又有一隻狐狸走入了雞舍，歐洲就以其典型的方式回應這個危險──憤怒地 ...全文
Discussions about "sustainability" usually center on a company’s environmental and social commitments, and for understandable reasons. But the financial sector in particular should consider two other, ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-13
The threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is being overshadowed by the menace of climate change. Though the AMR problem is arguably equal in importance, it has not commanded nearly the same level o ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-11
With interest rates on government debt at multi-decade lows, a number of leading economists have argued that almost every advanced economy can allow debt to drift up toward Japanese levels (over 150 p ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-09
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two of this year’s recipients of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, are the latest among leading economists to remind us that gross domestic product is a ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-09
假設英國脫離歐盟，那麼下一屆政府就需要開始漫長而艱辛的談判，來與其他國家和地區建立新關係。英國將面臨一些艱難抉 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 彙編選輯Ngaire Woods2019年12月07日
