When Edmundo, a waste picker in Peru, caught COVID-19, he had to take out a bank loan to pay for his visit to the clinic. Many of his colleagues also fell ill and subsequently went into debt, desperat ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-24
The world is becoming accustomed to the drip-drip of catastrophic headlines following each new climate-driven disaster. Increasingly frequent and severe heatwaves are causing wildfires in California a ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-23
The world is in the midst of a global permacrisis. As interrelated shocks – the war in Ukraine, the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, the escalating US-China rivalry, climate change, and a looming fin ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-22
Well, it was fun while it lasted. Two decades of easy money with low to zero interests, further juiced by successive rounds of ever larger stimulus spending, turned prudent investment principle on its ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-16
A spectre haunts the state of international geopolitics. It is a spectre that has nought to do with military confrontations, nuclear weapons, or the most advanced of gadgets that states are resorting ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-10
“What gets measured gets done.” It is a well-worn maxim, attributed to everyone from management guru Peter Drucker to physicist Lord Kelvin. Regardless of who said it first, the point is a crucial one ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-08
World leaders, diplomats, intelligence officials, and scholars convened in Germany in February for the annual Munich Security Conference amid a raging land war in Europe and heightened geopolitical te ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-06
Five and nine are the two numbers to remember about the three-year-long pandemic in Hong Kong. Today finally marks the end of the mask mandate, known as the Prevention and Control of Disease (Wearing ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-01
Shopper behavior is always evolving, but the changes have been much more significant in the past few years, accelerated by various payment-oriented technology and applications as well as the impact of ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-28
India is poised to become the world’s most important country in the medium term. It has the largest population (which is still growing), and with a per capita GDP that is just one-quarter that of Chin ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-23
According to the report Monitoring of Solid Waste in Hong Kong - Waste Statistics for 2020 released by the Environmental Protection Department (EPD), the total quantity of municipal solid waste (MSW) ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-21
