As US President Donald Trump's administration throws sharp elbows in trade negotiations and systematically rescinds regulations introduced by President Barack Obama, one casualty is likely to be effor ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-04
On this year's World AIDS Day, on December 1, we should remember the 35 million people who have died of AIDS-related illnesses, and the 76 million who have been infected with HIV since reporting began ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-01
In a sea of gloomy news, one bright headline appears on the horizon. The World Bank's latest figures on individuals' bank accounts, to be released next spring, are expected to show that the number of ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-01
US President Donald Trump certainly has a point when he complains that he inherited the difficult problem in North Korea. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has shown no interest in negotiation, or even ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-30
It was Antibiotic Awareness Week earlier this month, and, as Chair of the UK government’s Review on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) under Prime Minister David Cameron, I participated in a number of eve ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-28
Although the European Union is in the midst of an economic recovery, long-term unemployment – joblessness and job-seeking that lasts at least a year – remains stubbornly high in many of the countrie ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-27
Congressional Republicans must, President Donald Trump has commanded, pass their sweeping US tax bill by Christmas. Otherwise, they will have no major accomplishment to show for an entire year during ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-27
Corruption is a cancer to which no society is immune. It raised the death toll of Iran’s recent earthquake, owing to substandard housing construction 10 years ago. It has afflicted the United States N ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-24
The world is becoming increasingly urbanized, as more people are choosing to live in towns and cities than ever before. The trouble is, most urban areas are unprepared to manage the influx. Cities aro ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-24
French President Emmanuel Macron, once viewed as the quintessential centrist, has lately been labeled a right-wing politician. He has, after all, eliminated the wealth tax, introduced greater labor-ma ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-23
Being poor is a highly shameful experience, degrading one’s dignity and sense of self-worth. While the manifestations and causes of poverty differ, the humiliation that accompanies it is universal. Re ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-21
Writing about oil prices is always risky. In January 2015, I suggested that oil prices would not continue to fall, and even predicted that they would “finish the year higher than they were when it beg ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-21
When Donald Trump was elected US president a year ago, some said the end of the Paris climate agreement was nigh. Yet, as the latest round of global climate talks in Bonn, Germany, has shown, the worl ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-20
The hurricanes that pummeled the Caribbean, Texas, and Florida this year left highways submerged, homes and businesses demolished, and lives lost. The floodwaters have since receded, but the images of ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-20
在最近一場加州大學柏克萊分校舉辦的會議中，愛麗絲．理夫林（Alice Rivlin）對美國經濟政策制定的未來表 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機J. Bradford DeLong2017年11月20日
許多右翼民粹主義者的共同點是某種獨特形式的自怨自艾：他們感覺受到自由媒體、學者、知識分子和「專家」的迫害──簡 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Ian Buruma2017年11月20日
"Fearsome Plague Epidemic Strikes Madagascar." That recent New York Times headline might sound like the synopsis of a horror movie. The epidemic gripping Madagascar is not just any plague, and it cert ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-16
According to the Harvard economist Dani Rodrik, it is impossible to have full national sovereignty, democracy, and globalization simultaneously. The concept of a “political trilemma of the world econo ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-15
No one should die from a preventable disease. Yet preventable diseases kill two million children every year, many of whom are too poor to afford proper treatment. The majority of these deaths are eith ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-15
