Emerging markets in 2017 were marked by relatively fewer surprises compared with recent years. The global upturn in trade and production lifted growth beyond last year’s expectations, but emerging mar ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-12
Nowadays, there are hazards to looking for signs of hope in the British economy. As the latest OECD forecast for 2018 and beyond shows, a cloud of gloom has descended on the United Kingdom. The primar ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-07
... ance goes beyond the two parties most immediately involved. At the heart of Jerusalem’s Old City is the hill which is known to Jews across the world as Har ha-Bayit, or Temple Mount, and to Muslims in ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-07
... problems. Beyond that, Ludwig, Tufts University’s Dariush Mozaffarian, and I have proposed instituting a tax on processed food, much the same way that tobacco is taxed. Proceeds from the tax could be ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-04
... n expands beyond capitalizing on CVS’ existing MinuteClinic structure, which largely offers preventative services like flu shots. CVS plans to use its low-cost clinics to provide medical services to A ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-04
... tches way beyond the issue of mainland immigrants into policies concerning the importation of labor. First, let’s remind ourselves of the arrangements under which 150 mainland immigrants are allowed t ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-01
... s are way beyond what they can afford. -- Contact us at [email protected] BK/RA ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-01
... e to look beyond epidemiological facts. Guaranteeing the right to health will require us also to monitor the effects of discrimination and stigmatization, as well as laws and environmental factors tha ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-01
... ustry and beyond. Technology has placed a world of great content at consumers’ fingertips, and because entertainment is never a zero sum game, it’s just making them more eager to get their hands on th ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-29
... ers to go beyond short journeys, mostly within cities, because of battery limitations, a lack of charging stations and long charging times. With the IONITY technology, cars with advanced charging capa ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-28
... would go beyond June 2047. As of now, the government has approved quite a number of new land leases that would go beyond June 30, 2047. Yet some academics are worried that since the granting of these ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-24
... ll expand beyond Party members to cover all officials exercising public power at all levels. But building robust and lasting anti-graft institutions will not be easy, owing to the enduring ability of ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-24
... goes far beyond that. The truth is that the controversial policy is actually seen as a matter of national security, something that Transport Minister Frank Chan himself revealed in a Legislative Cou ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-21
... s to look beyond the Philippines, which provides the majority of the domestic helpers. "I have met with Cambodian officers and recruitment centers in my first two months after taking office [in July], ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-20
... greement, beyond which the impact of climate change becomes far greater. Our chances even of staying within the more conservative – and dangerous – 2° Celsius limit will be slim. To ignore this realit ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-20
... e is well beyond the 2.5 second time the Tesla Model S P100D can achieve in "ludicrous mode", according to TechCrunch. "This will be the first time that any production car has broken nine seconds in t ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-17
... jacked up beyond affordable levels. So the government’s proposal to increase the Cross-Harbour Tunnel fee as a way to divert vehicular traffic to other cross-harbour passages in the western and easter ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-16
... at is now beyond question is that Yersinia pestis was indeed the pathogen responsible for two of the most destructive pandemics ever. The Black Death, which lives on in popular imagination to this day ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-16
According to the Harvard economist Dani Rodrik, it is impossible to have full national sovereignty, democracy, and globalization simultaneously. The concept of a “political trilemma of the world econo ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-15