The debt crisis in low-income countries continues to fester. Meanwhile, the international policy community seems to be losing traction on the problem. Can it recover its grip, or has a developing-coun ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-20
The Western-led global economic order had a bad 2023. Surprisingly, the primary cause was not the emergence of an alternative order led by China, as some had anticipated. Instead, it was internal stre ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-19
Expectations were low for the meeting between American president Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, held Nov. 15 in San Francisco. But since then, there has been a lowering of tension ...More
EJ Insight2023-12-05
On November 14, remarkably, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the consumer price index was unchanged in October. To be clear, that means the level of the CPI was unchanged; its rate of ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-21
A wave of evictions recently hit in Dakar’s bustling Liberté 6 market, a roughly mile-long commercial hub that has served its community for more than 20 years. Hundreds of street vendors’ stalls were ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-17
Over the past 18 months, the Federal Reserve (Fed) has raised rates by 525 basis points (bps), its biggest tightening of monetary policy since 1981. Long-term bond yields have also soared. All but two ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-10
China’s demand for natural gas is set to increase strongly in the years ahead as it transitions to cleaner energy sources. The country has already signed a number of long-term liquefied natural gas (L ...More
EJ Insight2023-11-10
Rightly concerned about a decline in Japanese universities’ research capabilities, the Japanese government has created a ¥10 trillion ($67 billion) fund to address the problem. While cash accounts for ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-26
Following the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank this month, the Middle East is teetering on the edge of a major conflict, and the rest of the world continues to fra ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-26
In 2019, 31.88 million foreigners came to China for tou ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2023年10月19日
When I was a child, my father, who had witnessed the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, told me how common ground was sought around shared principles in a world fractured by the Co ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-18
From the 1960s until the mid-2010s, hunger was on the decline around the world. But, despite record food production, the trend is reversing, with around 828 million people affected by hunger globally ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-16
With her ambitious Bridgetown Agenda to reform the international financial architecture, Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has become a powerful advocate for climate justice. But she is not th ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-13
Humanity was caught off guard by the COVID-19 pandemic, even though we had effectively been warned by smaller-scale outbreaks – of SARS, Ebola, MERS, and avian flu – for decades. US President Barack ...More
EJ Insight2023-10-04
