With so much angst about artificial intelligence and the future of work, the recent world chess championship in London offers some hope. It is not that mankind has turned the tables on the march of pr ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-29
US President Donald Trump blew off two multilateral summits in Asia this month. Given his soggy and sulking performance that week in Paris, during the international commemoration of the centenary of t ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-29
The world is in a trade war, and there is no sign of peace breaking out anytime soon. By now, the disruption to trade appears extensive enough to factor negatively into forecasts for economic growth. ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-27
On the 40th anniversary of the launch of China’s “reform and opening up”, the country is well on its way to recapturing its former status as the world’s largest economy, having made substantial progre ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-27
More than 3 percent of all people live outside the country of their birth. But while the share of migrants in the world’s population has remained mostly stable for six decades, its composition has cha ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-21
From farm to fork, the international community is facing growing challenges in eradicating hunger and malnutrition. And yet while some parts of the world are obviously better endowed than others in te ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-20
The world’s central bankers have begun to discuss the idea of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and now even the International Monetary Fund and its managing director, Christine Lagarde, are ta ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-20
When China finally has its inevitable growth recession – which will almost surely be amplified by a financial crisis, given the economy’s massive leverage – how will the rest of world be affected? W ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-08
For anyone still undecided about the consequences of global warming, the summer of 2018, one of the hottest on record, should have tipped the scales. Across far-flung longitudes and latitudes, regions ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-07
The United States has long held itself up as a bastion of democracy. It has promoted democracy around the world. It fought, at great cost, for democracy against fascism in Europe during World War II. ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-07
Under Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, the United Kingdom will leave the European Union on March 29, 2019. Presuming that it does (but even if it does not), the UK government should continue to l ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-05
一般相信，自由貿易將令民眾普遍受惠，但現實上當貿易變得更自由時，不平等的現象便會惡化；其中一個原因是現行的全球 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 信觀點Jayati Ghosh2018年11月03日
The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union is rapidly unraveling. The "Chequers plan" upon which British Prime Minister Theresa May has based her negotiating strategy is dead on arrival. ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-02
Far from settling the question of the United Kingdom’s future, the 2016 Brexit referendum and subsequent negotiations with the European Union have triggered a full-blown identity crisis and culture wa ...More
EJ Insight2018-11-01
Trade tariffs may be getting the most attention, but the conflict between the United States and China is actually being fought on multiple fronts, including exchange rates, technology, cyberspace, and ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-31
A common misperception among observers of digital trends is that consumers in developing countries do not benefit from advances in technology. Whether it is owning the latest smartphone or "employing" ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-31
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” This aphorism, often attributed to Albert Einstein, seems to be the inspiration for US President Donald Trump’s ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-29
儘管早前傳出英歐雙方就脫歐具體問題幾近達成共識，但上星期的歐洲理事會會議，歐盟27國均認同談判仍未有足夠進展， ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 環地視野陳偉信2018年10月27日
It is easy to assume that access to the digital economy is ubiquitous, and that online shopping is the natural evolution of commerce. For example, in July, Amazon sold more than 100 million products t ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-24
Nearly 50 years ago, the Club of Rome’s report Limits to Growth warned that if economic growth continued apace without regard for the environment, the world could face ecological and economic collapse ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
