Last month, China’s leaders revealed details of the country's 13th five-year plan, which will guide the economy’s trajectory until 2020. Gone are the directives to expand industrial production at a br ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-03
Since the Nov. 13 terrorist bloodletting, Paris has been practically under martial law. In this subdued and challenging context, world leaders are convening in the City of Light at the United Nations ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-01
Last month’s monetary policy statement from the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) contained a striking statement: “If endogenous momentum is inadequate and returns on investment low, growth must rely on d ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-01
Today’s labor markets are undergoing radical change, as digital platforms transform how they operate and revolutionize the nature of work. In many ways, this is a positive development, one that has th ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-30
I traveled to Paris from London last Monday. It takes two-and-a-half hours by train. We are neighbors, our histories and populations intertwined. My 10-year-old granddaughter will go there next week w ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-23
The global commodity supercycle is hardly a new phenomenon. Though the details vary, primary commodity exporters tend to act out the same story, and economic outcomes tend to follow recognizable patte ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-20
Ever since the terrorist attacks in January on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket, Parisians knew that barbarism lurked around the corner and that it would strike again. But ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-17
Informal discussions on Britain’s relationship with the European Union are under way. With a referendum on the UK’s continued EU membership set to take place before the end of 2017, the talks are the ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-11
A great deal of water has flowed through the Taiwan Strait in the 70 years since the leader of China’s Communists, Mao Zedong, met the leader of his nationalist opponents, Chiang Kai-shek. So the rece ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-11
For much of the year, investors have been fixated on when the Fed will achieve "liftoff" – that is, when it will raise interest rates by 25 basis points, or 0.25 percent, as a first step toward normal ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-10
The high cost of gender inequality has been documented extensively. But a new study by the McKinsey Global Institute estimates that it is even higher than previously thought -- with far-reaching conse ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
Over the last few months, a great deal of attention has been devoted to financial-market volatility. But as frightening as the ups and downs of stock prices can be, they are mere froth on the waves co ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
So far, international climate talks have failed to find a mechanism that will successfully reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol attempted to use a system of tradable qu ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-06
Nothing describes the US Federal Reserve’s current communication policy better than the old saying that a camel is a horse designed by committee. Various members of the Fed’s policy-setting Federal Op ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-05
The abolition of China’s 35-year-old one-child policy closes one of the darkest chapters in the country’s history. In the late 1970s, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), determined to boost economic gr ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-05
Roads and railways, ports and bridges and economic growth go together. That is why international financial institutions such as mine need to answer appeals for greater investment to help close a US$1 ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
As Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sat down this week in Seoul with South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, he did so as the leader of a country that many people around ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-03
Twenty-five years ago, the state of public health for large populations was like that of a doctor trying to treat a patient without a proper diagnosis. The diseases and injuries that cut lives short a ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-30
Once upon a time, two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, held summits to reduce the danger of a nuclear war. Today, the summitry is between the US and China, a large part of which is ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-27
We know how to eradicate polio. Since the 1980s, an international vaccination effort led by the World Health Organization has driven the virus to the cusp of extinction. A disease that killed or paral ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-26
