The Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund, which kicked off on April 10 in Washington, provide an opportunity to reflect on the Bank’s ongoing evolution. As ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-18
In the week since the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) bankruptcy, global authorities have stepped in starting with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Swiss National Bank (SNB), the People ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-12
Late last year, Morris Chang, the legendary founder of Taiwan’s (and the world’s) leading semiconductor producer, proclaimed that “globalization is almost dead.” In a world where supply chains have be ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-03
When Edmundo, a waste picker in Peru, caught COVID-19, he had to take out a bank loan to pay for his visit to the clinic. Many of his colleagues also fell ill and subsequently went into debt, desperat ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-24
The world is becoming accustomed to the drip-drip of catastrophic headlines following each new climate-driven disaster. Increasingly frequent and severe heatwaves are causing wildfires in California a ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-23
The world is in the midst of a global permacrisis. As interrelated shocks – the war in Ukraine, the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, the escalating US-China rivalry, climate change, and a looming fin ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-22
Well, it was fun while it lasted. Two decades of easy money with low to zero interests, further juiced by successive rounds of ever larger stimulus spending, turned prudent investment principle on its ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-16
A spectre haunts the state of international geopolitics. It is a spectre that has nought to do with military confrontations, nuclear weapons, or the most advanced of gadgets that states are resorting ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-10
“What gets measured gets done.” It is a well-worn maxim, attributed to everyone from management guru Peter Drucker to physicist Lord Kelvin. Regardless of who said it first, the point is a crucial one ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-08
World leaders, diplomats, intelligence officials, and scholars convened in Germany in February for the annual Munich Security Conference amid a raging land war in Europe and heightened geopolitical te ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-06
Five and nine are the two numbers to remember about the three-year-long pandemic in Hong Kong. Today finally marks the end of the mask mandate, known as the Prevention and Control of Disease (Wearing ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-01
