A core problem in the United States today -- reflected in Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election earlier this month -- is that too many Americans feel helpless and insecure in the face of ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-28
If you happen to be sitting with two other people right now, chances are one of you is malnourished. And you might not even know it. Yes, that’s right: one in three people worldwide suffer from malnut ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-18
If Middle Eastern countries do not start making real progress on fundamental political and economic reforms, further regional turmoil is inevitable. With the rentier systems that governments have main ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-18
From the discovery of penicillin in 1928 to the introduction of the last of the main groups of antibiotics in the 1960s, humanity’s capacity to fight pathogenic bacteria has been transformative. But o ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-16
Donald Trump’s astonishing victory in the United States presidential election has made one thing abundantly clear: too many Americans -- particularly white male Americans -- feel left behind. It is no ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-15
With the United States’ presidential election on Nov. 8, and a series of elections and other political decisions fast approaching in Europe, now is a good time to ask whether the global economy is in ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-31
英國很晚才接受央行獨立性，因為時任首相戴卓爾夫人堅決反對讓非選舉產生的銀行家控制利率。她有一句名言「絕不拱手讓 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Howard Davies2016年10月29日
The ongoing presidential campaign in the United States stands out for its lack of civility and the vast differences between the candidates: the anti-establishment businessman Donald Trump on the Repub ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-26
2016年和2017年全球貿易增長前景再次被調低。目前世界貿易組織預計今年貿易量增長將是2008年全球衰退以來 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Otaviano Canuto2016年10月26日
Prospects for growth in global trade in 2016 and 2017 have been downgraded again. The World Trade Organization (WTO) now expects that trade this year will increase at its slowest pace since the post-2 ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-21
Four hundred years ago, John Rolfe used tobacco seeds pilfered from the West Indies to develop Virginia’s first profitable export, undermining the tobacco trade of Spain’s Caribbean colonies. More tha ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-19
As I have traveled around the world in recent weeks, I am repeatedly asked two questions: Is it conceivable that Donald Trump could win the US presidency? And how did his candidacy get this far in the ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-17
Because traditional financial services are not designed for small depositors and borrowers, several non-traditional models have been able to scale up rapidly in this untapped market. But without a str ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-14
At the start of October, China’s currency, the renminbi, was added to the basket of currencies that make up the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights (SDR). Previously, the SDR had been ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-11
在美國總統奧巴馬的8年任期步入尾聲之際，外界對他無法遏止敍利亞殺戮的批評愈演愈烈，不少人將之稱為他「最壞的錯誤 ...全文
今日信報EJ GlobalEJ GLOBAL plus 信觀點Christopher R. Hill2016年10月08日
The Brussels Conference on Afghanistan this week marks an important opportunity to create a roadmap for the country's future. While Afghanistan's current path has led to some progress, it is far from ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-06
美國需要把支出從戰爭轉移到教育上，從中央情報局（CIA）支持的顛覆政權活動轉移到新的全球教育基金（GFE）上。 ...全文
今日信報理財投資博集先機Jeffrey D. Sachs2016年10月05日
In his recent debate with his opponent Hillary Clinton, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pressed his claim that US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen is politically motivated. The Fed, T ...More
EJ Insight2016-10-04
The United States needs to shift its spending from war to education, from CIA-backed regime change to a new Global Fund for Education (GFE). With hundreds of millions of children around the world not ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
Saudi Arabia has long relied on oil to fuel its economic growth and development. Last year, oil accounted for about three-quarters of the kingdom’s total export revenues and around 90 percent of gover ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-28
