They were fresh off the boat, the group of refugees I met this time last year. They had fled their homes in Syria, traveled halfway across Turkey, and placed their lives in the hands of a gang of peop ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-19
Governments around the world are facing a huge challenge. The number of international migrants has surged in recent years, reaching 244 million in 2015 – a 41 percent increase from 2000. With that tot ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-17
Any assessment of Barack Obama's eight-year US presidency should start at the beginning: his first inauguration, on January 20, 2009. The US economy was in free-fall: financial markets had seized up, ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-16
Every January, I try to craft a forecast for the coming year. Economic forecasting is notoriously difficult; but, notwithstanding the truth expressed in Harry Truman's request for a one-armed economis ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-11
Donald Trump’s election as US president does not just represent a mounting populist backlash against globalization. It may also portend the end of Pax Americana – the international order of free excha ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-03
US President-elect Donald Trump is filling his cabinet with rich people. According to the latest count, his nominees include five billionaires and six multimillionaires. This is what is known as oliga ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-30
American foreign policy is at a crossroads. The United States has been an expanding power since its start in 1789. It battled its way across North America in the 19th century and gained global dominan ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-30
The United States, supposedly the world's beacon of democracy, is practicing a strange form of it nowadays. One presidential candidate won nearly three million more votes than her opponent, who, with ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-29
The United Kingdom’s Brexit vote, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s referendum defeat and subsequent resignation, and Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States have created a power ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-28
Around the world, several countries are currently undergoing “demonetization,” or currency reforms in which the government removes banknotes of a certain denomination from circulation and replaces the ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-23
US President-elect Donald Trump should have a relatively clear road ahead at home for the implementation of his economic program: with Republicans holding majorities in both houses of Congress, he see ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-20
An economic development revolution lies literally in the palm of a single hand. As mobile phones and digital technologies rapidly spread around the world, their implications for economic development, ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-15
The escalation of radicalism, violence, and civil wars in the Middle East since the so-called Arab Spring revolts began in 2010 has exacted a massive toll in human lives and welfare. The need to build ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-12
隨着美國總統選舉結束，外界擔心國際社會對抗氣候變化的努力，例如去年達成的《巴黎協議》、聯合國的「可持續發展目標 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 信觀點Bo Lidegaard2016年12月10日
After years of hibernation, will the US economy rouse itself for a big comeback over the next couple of years? With an incoming Republican administration hell-bent on reflating an economy already near ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-08
Nearly 40 years ago, when I visited Moscow for the first time, my initial reaction was surprise. The hotels and restaurants were so poorly run that it seemed shocking that the military could be run co ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-08
For centuries, women around the world have struggled for even the most basic rights. The fight for equality has been an uphill climb -- one that is far from over. This is certainly the case in the Mi ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-02
One of the hallmarks of a presidential transition in the United States is a comprehensive policy review, aimed at determining which policies to retain and which to eliminate or change. As President-el ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-01
伯克利──我最近聽世貿組織前總幹事拉米（Pascal Lamy）轉述了一則佛教傳說，禪宗六世祖惠能對無盡藏比丘 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機J. Bradford DeLong2016年11月30日
Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election surprised most of the world. But the president-elect is not finished defying expectations. Contrary to the predictions of many experts, stock mar ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-29
