The Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund, which kicked off on April 10 in Washington, provide an opportunity to reflect on the Bank’s ongoing evolution. As ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-18
... t threats to the global primacy of the United States – and particularly to that of the US dollar. I encountered such commentary in the responses to my recent Global Policy article assessing the future ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-17
The Government has recently put forward a new toll scheme to share traffic in the three cross harbour tunnels (Cross-Harbour, Eastern and Western tunnels) in a bid to address long-standing traffic con ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-17
... is going to become like running water or electricity. ...全文
Those keenly following economic data for signs of a recession in the US and globally were in for a surprise in recent weeks. Financial sector stress came to the fore and dwarfed positive economic data ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-14
As a general rule of thumb, policies that deliver for the people, are much better than promises of policies that claim to deliver. The Inflation Reduction Act introduced by Biden’s White House, for al ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-14
No one seems to know how the United States would react if China were to invade Taiwan. For decades, US leaders did all they could to avoid this question. Then, in September of last year, President Joe ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-14
... relative to others, but relative to our typical mean of personal conduct - can be quite discomforting. Consider, for instance, getting a singer to talk about Hobbesian political philosophy; or for an ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-13
China is leading the race among industrialised nations to buy and refine lithium, the key component to make batteries for the electric cars that will dominate the global market in the 2030s. Many call ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-13
Who doesn’t like to travel to Japan? What a surprise to see that 92-year-old Warren Buffett was among the visitors in the cherry blossoming season this year along with hundreds of thousands of Hong Ko ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-12
... ree of Doctor of Science honoris causa from the University of Hong Kong, and Esri, a geographic information systems (GIS) software company he founded in 1969, has remained a leader in the industry for ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-12
... er damage to the banking sector balance sheets and loan books can be extended. The United States is focused on ringfencing liquidity and funding issues, while Asia is throwing support to its banks. US ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-12
... tradeoff to have the Arctic Ocean…）。 美國主流媒體除了對此一問一答隻字不 ...全文
Voluntary markets for carbon offsets have recently come under fire, with critics questioning the efficacy of contracts that aim to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide relative to what would have happene ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-11
After years of global climate-policy leadership, the European Union is looking warily at the United States’ sudden embrace of ambitious clean-energy subsidies. Ultimately, America’s entry into the cle ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-11
... ken a hit to their reputations. Yet, this trend is not new. History has thrown up many examples of reputational crises - from political scandals to corporate missteps. In a 2015 Deloitte Survey, 87 pe ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-11
