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
There is no longer any denying that democracy is at risk worldwide. Many people doubt that democracy is working for them, or that it is working properly at all. Elections don’t seem to yield real-worl ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-05
Our billionaire problem is getting worse. Any market-oriented economy creates opportunities for new fortunes to be built, including through innovation. More innovation is likely to take place where fe ...More
EJ Insight2019-12-02
As world leaders gather in Madrid for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25), they must address more than future targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. They must also address the ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-29
The "bicycle theory" used to be a metaphor for international trade policy. Just as standing still on a bicycle is not an option – one must keep moving forward or else fall over – so it was said that t ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-28
Nearly six months after they began, the protests in our city have reached fever pitch. On one particularly devastating day earlier this month, police fired more than 1,500 rounds of tear gas, a police ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-27
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the central bankers’ club in Basel, Switzerland, recently conducted an in-depth evaluation of the unconventional monetary policies that have become the no ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-21
This past May and August, escalations in the trade and technology conflict between the United States and China rattled stock markets and pushed bond yields to historic lows. But that was then: since t ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-21
The climate crisis and the 2008 financial crisis are two sides of the same coin. Both were born of the same toxic feature of the world’s prevailing economic model: the practice of discounting the futu ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-15
At 3.6 percent, unemployment in the United States remains near its lowest level since the late 1960s. There are even signs that people who had previously dropped out of the labor force are being attra ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-15
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was at least half right when he recently told the United States Congress that there is no US monopoly on regulation of next-generation payments technology. You may not lik ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-12
