Hillary Clinton has repeatedly claimed in recent months that the US economy does much better when a Democrat is in the White House. Coming from the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, that pr ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-23
The old idea of recasting the welfare state by instituting an unconditional universal basic income has lately been capturing imaginations across the political spectrum. On the left, it is regarded as ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-23
Until very recently, Europeans paid little attention to the British referendum on the country's membership in the European Union. Now that the potential for “Brexit” has become real, they are increasi ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-22
Children die from preventable and treatable conditions like diarrhea and pneumonia every day, with the developing world accounting for the majority of victims. The need to produce innovative and cost- ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-21
Every day, millions of people across the developed and developing world inch through gridlock or squeeze into packed subway cars to get to and from work. And that is likely to be only one of many freq ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-15
When British Prime Minister David Cameron agreed with the European Union in February on revised terms for Britain’s membership, he insisted that the EU be recognized officially as a “multicurrency uni ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-10
From changes in government in Argentina and Brazil to mid-course policy corrections in Chile, Latin American politics appears to be undergoing a rightward shift. But rather than being “pulled” by the ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-08
Since the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, productivity growth in three advanced economies -- the United States, Europe, and Japan -- has been very slow both in absolute terms and relative to ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-06
A trend toward greater authoritarianism seems to be spreading worldwide. Russian President Vladimir Putin has successfully used nationalism to tighten his control over Russia and seems to enjoy great ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-06
In the right circumstances, we can all be gullible fools – which will be the case if the European Union welcomes the Nord Stream 2 project to double the delivery of natural gas from Russia via the Bal ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-03
Roughly one-third of the people who suffer from extreme poverty worldwide live in member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). In 21 of those 57 countries, less than half of the pop ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-03
Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee to contest the United States’ presidential election in November, is clearly not a standard Republican. The party’s leaders and elected official ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-01
In 2015, around 5.9 million children under the age of five, almost all in developing countries, died from easily preventable or treatable causes. And up to 200 million young children and adolescents d ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-01
The US Federal Reserve is increasingly at risk of losing credibility – and for good reason. As Narayana Kocherlakota, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, recently argued, Fed ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-01
High profits are usually viewed as a sign of a company’s economic prowess, the result of innovation and efficiency forged by healthy competition. But, as a recent report by the US Council of Economic ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-31
By all accounts, the much anticipated Seventh Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea was a non-event. If the first such meeting of North Korea’s highest organ in more than 35 years had any impact at ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-30
Like a typical school bully, China is big and strong but it doesn’t have a lot of friends. Indeed, now that the country has joined with the United States to approve new international sanctions on its ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-27
