In late October, the World Health Organization’s regional office for Africa signed an agreement with the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The aim of the unlikely partnership ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-28
China’s digital economy is a force to be reckoned with. The country now accounts for 42 percent of global e-commerce, boasts one-third of the world’s most successful tech startups, and conducts 11 tim ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-27
After falling for more than a decade, the number of hungry people in the world is rising once again. This year was marked by the worst global food crisis since World War II, with South Sudan, Yemen, S ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-22
We all know how bad tobacco is, that it kills millions of people every year, and that it harms many more. We also know that tobacco companies have consistently lied about how much damage their product ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-20
Last year, three of the world's largest meat companies – JBS, Cargill, and Tyson Foods – emitted more greenhouse gases than France, and nearly as much as some big oil companies. And yet, while energ ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-20
Economic growth is accelerating across most of the world. Yet the world's total gross debt-to-GDP ratio has reached nearly 250 percent, up from 210 percent before the global economic crisis nearly a d ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-19
More than ten years after the global financial crisis, the world economy is finally enjoying a broad-based recovery. Europe and its broader neighborhood are no exception: economic growth in almost eve ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-19
Since its introduction four decades ago, genetic engineering has been a source of high hopes for health, agriculture, and industry. But it has also provoked deep anxiety, not least owing to the labori ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-15
For years after the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers congratulated themselves for having averted a second Great Depression. They had responded to the global recession with the kind of Keynesian fis ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-15
如果金融投資者今年耶誕節要給聖誕老人寫信，他們很可能會祈求延續主導了過去一年的不尋常因素組合：超低的市場波動性 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Mohamed A. El-Erian2017年12月14日
How the world uses energy is a hot topic for a warming planet, and fears of pollution and resource strain have produced a virtual arms race of energy-efficiency strategies. From the European Union to ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-13
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), like heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and chronic lung disease, are responsible for 70 percent of all deaths. There is incontrovertible evidence that tobacco ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-12
Donald Trump won the US presidency with the backing of working-class and socially conservative white voters on a populist platform of economic nationalism. Trump rejected the Republican Party’s tradit ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-12
Nearly two years have passed since France’s then-foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, struck his gavel and declared: “The Paris agreement for the climate is accepted.” Next week, President Emmanuel Macro ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-11
At least since Mary Shelley created Victor Frankenstein and his iconic monster in 1818, humans have had a morbid fascination with man-made beings that could threaten our existence. From the American t ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-08
Intelligent machines are transforming the way we produce, work, learn, and live throughout the world. Almost every aspect of our economies will be radically altered. Major logistics companies and indi ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-08
Nowadays, there are hazards to looking for signs of hope in the British economy. As the latest OECD forecast for 2018 and beyond shows, a cloud of gloom has descended on the United Kingdom. The primar ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-07
Fifteen years ago, I published Globalization and Its Discontents, a book that sought to explain why there was so much dissatisfaction with globalization within the developing countries. Quite simply, ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-06
As the rest of the world looks on with a mixture of amusement and pity, British politics in the age of Brexit has come to resemble a soap opera. Can the chaos that is descending on the United Kingdom ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-05
In the fight against HIV/AIDS, some stories illuminate the long road to global eradication more than others. In 2009, I heard one such story in Tanzania. I was visiting a remote village when I spoke t ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-04
