The COVID-19 pandemic, compounded by supply-chain disruptions and surging inflation, has highlighted the fragilities of Africa’s food systems, leading to a 60% increase in hunger across the continent ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-06
... irection. By the first decade of this century, the engine of economic growth had clearly begun to misfire. Not only could we no longer count on rapid growth, but we also had to account for new civiliz ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-06
... , such as by relying on the United Nations instead. But the end of the Cold War did not mean that Japan no longer lived in a dangerous region. Its next-door neighbor is North Korea’s unpredictable dic ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-06
... o Europe. By cutting off these supplies and driving up prices, Russia has demonstrated that it cannot be trusted as a trading partner. European reluctance ever to buy Russian gas again will put a big ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-03
... pitomised by Deirdre, portrayed by none other than the stellar Jamie Lee Curtis). It sure ain’t easy to look and sound, to speak and behave ‘foreign’ in a ‘foreign land’ – especially when the odds are ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-03
... the world by storm. Full disclosure: I have, myself, spent months planning and spearheading an Effective Altruism debate camp. It'd be helpful to backtrack a little – what, really, is Effective Altrui ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-03
... Supported by strong growth, it jumped from 33rd in 2020 to 18th this year. Although Hong Kong ranks 26th in the world, it still ranks fourth in Asia, only behind Tokyo, Singapore and Seoul. Based on p ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-02
... trillion by 2026. As we leap over the economic challenges, there’s a lush landscape of opportunities for the tech and payment sectors across the APAC region to graze on. Challenges present a hotbed f ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-02
Many of those who attended this year’s meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos were struck by the jubilant mood of the CEOs in attendance. It was hard to reconcile the optimism of these business ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-02
... ble kudos by a relatively simple process that still leaves the judiciary in control of what is, demonstrably, an intrinsically justiciable issue. The solution, if I may make so bold as to teach grandm ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-01
... emplified by the negative equity cases soaring to more than 12,000 cases, an 18-year high. This time, the number of negative equity cases was higher than the financial tsunami in 2008-9 but still fell ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-01
... addressed by counting on people to switch to lower-carbon technologies, or will it take more fundamental changes to how we live and organize ourselves as a society? These are not just philosophical or ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-01
... debt held by the public），後者的三分之二屬國內投資者，三分之一屬外國投資者。美國國內持 ...全文
... replaced by the dangerous fallacy that it would be better to unwind all those international linkages and respond nationally to national needs. The pandemic and Russia’s war have intensified the appar ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-31
The Bank of Japan (BoJ) surprised markets on Wednesday by keeping its Yield Curve Control (YCC) policy unchanged. The BoJ’s decision temporarily pushed Japanese government bond (JGB) yields lower and ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-31
... n offered by three Acts of the Biden administration to electric vehicles, telecommunications and energy infrastructure. Disbursement of the money is linked in part to the degree of production within t ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-31
... d created by pandemic spending. Anyone with any faith in the market economy knew that the supply issues would be resolved eventually; but no one could possibly know when. After all, we have never endu ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-30
... spending by up to 55%. And in response to the 2014 oil-price crash, Mexico pared public spending by close to 0.7% of GDP. Although high prices may lead to economic booms, they inevitably fall – and o ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-30
