China has made no secret of its aim to achieve food security. As the world’s biggest importer of a number of staples, including soybeans, corn and rice, its push to be self-sufficient has significant ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-26
If you are looking for an argument in West Africa, try asking which country serves the best jollof. While Senegalese can claim to have invented the popular rice-based dish, Nigerians, Ghanaians, and o ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-25
Aggressive central bank rate hikes and the resulting bond bear market in 2022 were extremely painful for investors. With 2023’s banking crisis adding to a backdrop already at risk from the hikes, econ ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-17
Ajay Banga, the newly-appointed President of the World Bank, is taking the helm at a pivotal moment. The devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have impeded progress in developing countries and ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-14
China’s growth model is undergoing fundamental change. After decades of relying primarily on external demand to drive growth, the government has embraced a “dual circulation” model, driven by both int ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-03
Last week the British House of Commons voted 354-7 to approve a damning report by its privileges committee against former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. It said he had committed five contempts of Parli ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-29
Last week the British House of Commons voted 354-7 to a ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2023年06月29日
Covid-19 was the catalyst for a seismic shift in the way people work. The pandemic turbo-charged a revolution that was already underway, proving that technology can support productivity anywhere. At t ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-27
Innovation can have a profound effect on our lives. Thanks to technological advances that reduced the price of solar energy by nearly 90% between 2009 and 2019, the green-energy transition is within r ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-23
The tragic deaths of three small girls set against their mother’s apparent history of mental illness and the two women randomly stabbed to death by an alleged schizophrenic, focuses attention on the i ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-15
Fiction writers have long imagined scenarios in which every human action is monitored by some malign centralized authority. But now, despite their warnings, we find ourselves careening toward a dystop ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-14
Mexican stocks have reached new highs this year. The FTSE Mexico RIC Capped Index is up more than 26% year-to-date, with consumer staples and materials constituents leading the way higher.There are a ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-09
相信大家對2019年發生的公共衞生風波都歷歷在目。那年12月，全球首個新冠（COVID-19）確診個案出現，新 ...全文
“The old is dying and the new cannot be born,” the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci wrote in the early twentieth century. We seem to be living in a similar interregnum today, likewise marked b ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-02
Everything changed in early 2020, when it became clear that COVID-19 was not going to be contained. Suddenly, life in the United States and many other countries came to a near standstill: schools and ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-29
