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
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
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
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
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
Real-estate prices in China's top cities are spiking, generating contradictory predictions of either bursting bubbles or a coming economic turnaround. What's really going on in the market? The Nationa ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-27
The European Union's list of crises keeps growing. But, beyond the United Kingdom's "Brexit" vote to leave the bloc, Poland’s constitutional-court imbroglio, Russian expansionism, migrants and refugee ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-26
Imagine it is 2020. The director of the CIA requests an urgent meeting with the US president. Reason: North Korea has succeeded in making a nuclear bomb small enough to fit inside the tip of an interc ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-21
The early returns on Brexit are in, and contrary to what some have been claiming, they’re not good. In July, following the referendum, consumer confidence collapsed at its most rapid rate since 1990. ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-14
