... ly glaring. This November will be the 20th anniversary of the BRIC acronym, which I first used in a 2001 Goldman Sachs paper entitled “Building Better Global Economic BRICs.” At the time, I offered fo ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-17
The global food system is unsustainable. While it is worth approximately $8 trillion annually, its negative impact is valued at roughly $12 trillion. And this is not the system’s only contradiction. A ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-17
... f business. The availability and access to critical data and applications has reached a new level of criticality, as every sector of business and society accelerates adoption of digital capabilities. ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-16
People have been using “exit” as a suffix for a decade or so. Grexit, referring to a potential Greek departure from the eurozone, was the first to emerge. Italexit made a brief appearance, and has rec ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-16
... te scholar. Social media platforms glamourise the insta ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年09月16日
These are tough times to be a genuinely erudite scholar. Social media platforms glamourise the instant – as if the speed of consumption and consumability had anything to do with the quality of the inf ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-15
If you want to understand policy choices, it is said, “follow the money.” Inspired by that advice, we at The Nature Conservancy (in partnership with the Paulson Institute and the Cornell Atkinson Cent ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-14
Extreme weather has become more frequent in recent years, even developed metropolises cannot escape the devastation. In the past few months, London, Zhengzhou inChina, and New York have all experience ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-14
Swaths of Europe are flooded, and the American west is engulfed in heat, fire, and drought. Wealthy countries are experiencing what many developing countries have always known: a changing climate can ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-13
As this year’s brutal summer showed, it has become increasingly easy to track the consequences of climate change. Just as extreme weather is claiming more and more human lives, more and more species a ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-13
Seven years ago LegCo started to discuss the regulation of electronic cigarettes. Finally, public health advocates believe, it will next month pass a bill that outlaws the import, production, distribu ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-13
... superhero. He is not white – for starters (obviously); ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightBrian Wong2021年09月11日
Economists across the political spectrum have long advocated an increase in infrastructure investment in the United States. Now, Congress is debating infrastructure spending packages that would secure ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-10
Shang-Chi (played by Simu Liu in this enthralling, ambitious debut) is, in many ways, an uncharacteristic Marvel/Hollywood superhero. He is not white – for starters (obviously); though with the increa ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-09
This year includes big anniversaries in the history of the international monetary order. August 15 marked 50 years since US President Richard Nixon “closed the gold window”; and on September 21, it wi ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-09
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were a horrific shock. Images of trapped victims leaping from the Twin Towers are indelible, and the intrusive security measures introduced in the wake of ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-08
The regulatory crackdown on China’s online education sector in August has triggered concerns that other industries could also come under the government’s radar. This has caused a sell-off in Chinese e ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-07
With the United States’ disastrous exit from Afghanistan, the parallels between the 2020s and the 1970s just keep growing. Has a sustained period of high inflation just become much more likely? Until ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-06
Quoting a global study, the Department of Health pointed out that there are an estimated 13.7 million new cases of stroke around the world every year. The number of cases has been rising in recent yea ...More
EJ Insight2021-09-06
