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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” In times of crisis, leaders who lead by example or personal sacrifice are likely to inspire loyalty from their employees.

How Virus-Hit China Manages Its Sprawling Gig Economy

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 28, 2020

When it comes to employee satisfaction in these extraordinary times, Alibaba and other Chinese e-commerce players leave Amazon in their trail

We need ’a more resilient and fair system that protects the most vulnerable’ - Jennifer Morgan, Greenpeace.

COVID-19 is an unmissable chance to put people and the planet first

By: EBR | Friday, April 24, 2020

This is a moment that is testing our very humanity. It is also a moment when, if we are not on the frontlines of this pandemic, we can take a moment to look a bit further into the distance to imagine what the world will look like in the coming weeks and months, which will help form our longer-term future

Social science research shows us that social practices change as a result of a crisis when three conditions are met: First, the practices in question must be seen as the cause or at least the aggravation of the crisis.

The Death of Globalization?

By: EBR | Friday, April 24, 2020

The temptation to forecast the end of globalization is large, but very premature

Tracing the Iranian side’s comparative ineptness, the Ayatollahs prove their ability to match Trump blow-by-blow. While Trump has called it the “China Virus,” Khamenei referred to it, predictably enough, as an American creation.

COVID 19: Trump and Iran’s Ayatollahs

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 22, 2020

How the supreme leaders of Iran and the U.S. handled the COVID 19 challenge: A short comparative study

Why did a country so deeply religious and so proud of being the birth place of Islam, a country which has assumed the leadership role of Sunni Muslims worldwide, wait five years to declare a ceasefire in an effort to end the world’s worst humanitarian crisis since World War II?

The Saudis’ War in Yemen Is a Crime Against Humanity

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 22, 2020

For Saudi Arabia, which leads the Sunni Muslim world, to act as brutally as it has in Yemen is a gross violation of Islam and constitutes crimes against humanity

Disease knows no borders. In response to the threat of the COVID-19 epidemic, Taiwan has implemented dynamic plans concerning border quarantine measures, including onboard quarantine, fever screening, health declarations, and a 14-day home quarantine for passengers arriving from nations it has listed under Level 3 Warning.

Global Health Security—A call for Taiwan’s inclusion in the WHO

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 21, 2020

The threat of emerging infectious diseases to global health and the economy, trade, and tourism has never abated

“Benny Gantz, this is your moment of truth. As someone who knows Netanyahu better than anyone, I estimate that he won’t sign a coalition deal with you, not today, not tomorrow.”

Israel gets an emergency government, Gantz and Netanyahu sign unity agreement

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 21, 2020

The deal averts what would have been a fourth consecutive election in just over a year as the country fights its coronavirus outbreak

Brent oil prices have collapsed around 60% since the start of the year, while U.S. crude futures have fallen around 130% to levels well below break-even costs necessary for many shale drillers. This has led to drilling halts and drastic spending cuts.

Oil market in Europe and US under pressure and falling sharply

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 21, 2020

The price of US oil has turned negative for the first time in history. That means oi; producers are paying buyers to take the commodity off their hands over fears that storage capacity could run out in May

Brief political turmoil ensued on April 12 with the resignation of the Turkish interior minister, promptly turned down by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, subsequently reigniting speculations over tensions within the presidential palace and the governing coalition.

The Ripple Effects of the Coronavirus in Turkey

By: EBR | Friday, April 17, 2020

The way autocratic regimes make use of the coronavirus pandemic is disrupting democracy and governance worldwide. Turkey is no exception

“We regret the decision of the President of the United States to order a halt in funding to the World Health Organization,” said Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

WHO officials respond to US funding halt: ‘We regret the decision’

By: EBR | Thursday, April 16, 2020

World Health Organization (WHO) officials responded to news that the United States would temporarily halt funding to the agency at a briefing

President Trump wants a final plan on reopening the country ready within days so he can issue suggestions for some states to reopen May 1, officials said.

Breaking news: A Plan to Get America Back to Work

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 15, 2020

The plan has been leaked in the US to reopen the economy in phases. The plan, entitled ‘Work for America’, should start as soon of possible, while a number of infections in the country is increasing rapidly

"This is a crisis like no other, and there is substantial uncertainty about its impact on people’s lives and livelihoods."

IMF predicts: the global coronavirus becomes the worst economic downturn since the great depression

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 15, 2020

The world has changed dramatically in the three months since the last IMF-update of the World Economic Outlook in January

The globalization of trade and capital flows, to say nothing of the cross-border surge in information and labor flows, makes it hard to envision that an increasingly interconnected world would ever reverse course.

China’s Global Role: The 2010 Perspective

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 14, 2020

From our archives (2010 edition): Why does China have to step up and take the helm of global economic reform?

“I would say without question it’s the biggest decision I’ve ever had to make”.

Who will reopen the American economy: President Trump or his governors?

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 14, 2020

President Trump is at great risk of a major conflict with his governors

Gantz froze the anti-Netanyahu legislation and accepted the post of parliament speaker as he began talks on a rotation agreement in which both men would serve as prime minister.

President Rivlin of Israel rejects coalition talks between Gantz and Netanyahu

By: EBR | Monday, April 13, 2020

President Rivlin of Israel rejects coalition talks between Gantz and Netanyahu, pushing nation to an unprecedented fourth election

The Democrats’ chances against Trump has always rested on getting a big voter turnout, especially in the urban areas, which have been hardest hit by COVID 19.

Could the Pandemic Re-elect Trump?

By: EBR | Friday, April 10, 2020

Has the coronavirus crisis really severely damaged, if not doomed, Trump’s chances of being re-elected? What the Democrats must do to win

Governments are beginning to reinforce their healthcare systems.

Healthcare Lessons for the Post-Corona World

By: EBR | Friday, April 10, 2020

Unlike the fallout from the 2008/9 global financial crisis, improving the healthcare sectors across the world should not retard economic growth

COVID 19’s rapid spread through Asia has shown that poorer countries with weak health systems have been unable to cope, leaving many citizens with little or no treatment.

Advantage Asia: Social Cohesion as King in the COVID 19 Era

By: EBR | Thursday, April 9, 2020

Social cohesion will be critical in this new world of the COVID 19 crisis. Asia’s case proves that social cohesion is Janus-faced, working in two opposite directions

Biden said that coronavirus had ‘magnified some of our worst systemic inequities’, and that black and Hispanic communities are suffering higher infection and death rates than white communities.

Biden wages ’unequal combat’ with Trump and is not really rid of Sanders

By: EBR | Thursday, April 9, 2020

At a virtual town hall on Wednesday, just hours after Bernie Sanders dropped out of the presidential race, Joe Biden assumed the mantle of his party’s presumptive nominee

The end of December, Taiwanese officials, ignored by the WHO at China’s behest, sounded the alarm that the virus could be transmitted from human to human.

WHO ignored a Taiwanese Corona-virus alarm at China’s behest

By: N. Peter Kramer | Thursday, April 9, 2020

The World Health Organisation is an institution that should be the vanguard of the global fight against the Corona virus but is failing

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EU leaders slow down Green Deal to save industry and business competitiveness

N. Peter KramerBy: N. Peter Kramer

The relation between industry and business competitiveness on the one hand and the green transition on the other was one of the key issues at the Summit last week.

Europe

Can the EU Meet the Trump Moment?

Can the EU Meet the Trump Moment?

The second term of U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing Europeans to strengthen their capacity for collective action. But their biggest challenge comes from within: U.S.-backed radical-right parties that want to weaken the EU.

Business

China to loosen chip export ban to Europe after Netherlands row

China to loosen chip export ban to Europe after Netherlands row

Beijing has said it will loosen a chip export ban it imposed after Dutch authorities took over Nexperia, a Chinese-owned chipmaker based in the Netherlands.

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