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SIPRI’s report, Trends in International Arms Trends, 2017, identifies 67 countries as exporters of major weapons in 2013–17. It lists the five largest suppliers during the period as the United States, Russia, France, Germany and China.

What you need to know about global arms sales in 6 charts

By: EBR | Thursday, March 15, 2018

The rise in global arms sales that began in the early 2000s continued in 2017

For Western Europe, the overall gap to reach gender parity is currently the smallest, although still at 25%.

Western Europe: The Fastest-Closing Gender Gap

By: EBR | Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Which world regions have the widest gender gaps and which are closing slowest?

The bigger point is that there was—and still is—a set of trade rules that set certain standards, particularly with regard to subsidies. China, with its insatiable appetite for markets and trade, flouted the rules. If Trump is serious about walking away from the WTO and adopting a protectionist policy, Xi Jinping, China’s president and communist party leader (who has just had himself elected for life), must be in heaven. Trump has handed him a silver platter, even if the United States slaps tariffs on China’s steel imports. The United States is walking away from the free trade rules that it made.

Trump and Putin Tear Up the Rulebooks

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 13, 2018

The post-1945 institutions are being eclipsed, leaving a vacuum that favors China and weakens Europeans unless they change course

Investments cannot present any improvement without effort because we exited from the memorandums without the existence of serious Foreign Investment Funds (FIF) in order to be synchronized with the saving rate of the economy, which remains weak at 11 % of GDP (while in other EU countries the figure reached 20% of GDP)

Contemporary economy and new prospects

By: EBR | Monday, March 12, 2018

A thorough reading to economic indicators offers a temporary relief that emerges from the following data: in the second quarter of 2018, private consumption rose to +1 % from 0 % in the first quarter, employment increased in the first half of 2018 +1,6 % from +1,2 % in 2017

Though the price of Bitcoin has been uncharacteristically stable at the time of writing (though it’s beginning to drop again), it’s difficult to imagine it reaching the zenith of late last year, particularly with mounting threats of greater regulation cooling down the speculative excitement. So, if Roubini and these other doomsayers prove to be correct and the preeminent cryptocurrency is teetering on the brink, what, if anything, will be its legacy? What will become of the blockchain?

Still don’t understand the blockchain? This explainer will help

By: EBR | Monday, March 12, 2018

The world has been captivated by the drama surrounding Bitcoin’s meteoric rise and subsequent collapse

In emerging markets, corporate governance logics shape coverage decisions by influencing risk perception. It would be important for analysts, especially those from shareholder-logic countries, to recognise their tendency to perceive family firms as riskier vs. non-family firms with otherwise similar profiles. Such an awareness may reduce their risk of missing out on firms with high growth potential.

Why Family Firms Lack Analyst Coverage

By: EBR | Monday, March 12, 2018

Widely-held cultural views shape securities analysts’ assessment of family firms

When organisations mistakenly assume new market creation hinges on breakthrough technologies, they tend to push for products or services that are either too “out there” – ahead of their time, too esoteric, too complicated – or, like the Segway, lacking the complementary ecosystem needed to open up a new market. In fact, many technology innovations fail to create and capture new markets even as they win accolades for their organisations. Think of TiVo, whose original digital video recorder garnered a lot of fanfare and is in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s National Inventors Hall of Fame, but left most people wondering what it did and why they would want it.

Why tech innovation isn’t the answer everyone thinks it is

By: EBR | Monday, March 12, 2018

Value innovation is the cornerstone of new market creation

In the international edition of the New York Times on February 17-18, professor Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth College (an Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire) wrote that ‘much more remains to be learned about the effects of these types of online activities, but people should not assume they had huge effects. Previous studies have found, for instance, that the effects of even television advertising (arguable a higher impact medium) are very small.’

Who want to combat online misinformation should take steps based on evidence and data

By: N. Peter Kramer | Thursday, March 8, 2018

Some people in the US have the idea that false news articles that flooded Facebook and other online outlets during the presidential elections in November 2016 swung the election to Donald Trump

It’s important to keep up the pressure, to continue the global marches and campaigns and to make sure that equal rights issues continue to trend on social media. It is important to get men involved and to insist, as Hillary Clinton did in Beijing in 1995, that “women’s rights are human rights”. Most of all, it is important to press for new policies, stronger action and strict enforcement.

Gender equality is on the global agenda but change is still too slow

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 6, 2018

This time it’s really different. Or at least it should be. This year’s International Women’s Day on 8 March comes amid an unprecedented global movement for women’s rights, equality and justice

The EU and Israel have indeed cultivated valuable and flourishing cooperation in several areas, which ought to be nourished and concretized by leadership in the near future, lest it dissipate into nearly nothing. It almost goes without saying that, as Israel is one of the world leaders in the field of security, intelligence and cyber, the EU should make the most of the partnership with its Middle-East ally as a resource as it confronts and responds to emerging threats within its borders.

Opportunities amidst Crisis in EU-Israel Ties

By: EBR | Friday, March 2, 2018

The EU and Israel have known better years of more extensive relations and stronger hopes for closer ties. Sadly, the current era is not one of growth and warming of relations

The ruling states: “The required warning for glyphosate does not appear to be factually accurate and uncontroversial because it conveys the message that glyphosate’s carcinogenicity is an undisputed fact, when almost all other regulators have concluded that there is insufficient evidence that it causes cancer.

US Judge says scientists have ”not shown” link between glyphosate and cancer

By: EBR | Wednesday, February 28, 2018

A key ruling by a US judge on glyphosate could have significant implications on the status of the herbicide at EU level, according to a parliamentary source

In the annual study “Project SUN”, where it is estimated the scale and development of the illicit cigarette market in the EU, Norway and Switzerland, it is shown that overall, counterfeit and contraband (C&C) posing significant threats, although declined by 8.8%, to 48.3 billion cigarettes in 2016. Nevertheless, it is still accounted for over 9% of total consumption.

Tobacco illicit trade in Europe, Israel and Middle East: challenges and threats

By: EBR | Tuesday, February 27, 2018

In 2016, one in every 12 cigarettes lit up in the world was illicit valued collectively at around 40 billion dollars, with an equivalent tax loss to global governments

People whose bedtimes varied by two hours over the week, slept for half an hour less per night, on average, than those whose bedtimes changed by only 30 minutes. This is what Fitbit called “social jet lag”.

Fitbit analyzed data on 6 billion nights of sleep – with fascinating results

By: EBR | Friday, February 23, 2018

Getting a good night’s sleep is vital for health. But until recently, the only way you could actually monitor the quality of your sleep was to visit a sleep clinic

US President Donald Trump’s assault on non-discrimination and equal justice at home and his “bromance” with the world’s tough guys goes hand in hand with worldwide cutbacks in US support for human rights, the rule of law, and good governance.

They talk of war but it’s their own citizens these ’strong’ men fear most

By: EBR | Tuesday, February 20, 2018

They talked of war and conflict but most of the “strongmen” lashing out at each other at the recent security conference in Munich are more fearful of their own citizens than they are of each other

What is needed is a new era of agile governance – policymaking that is adaptive, human-centered, inclusive and sustainable, which acknowledges that policy development is no longer limited to governments but rather is an increasingly multi-stakeholder effort.

How can policy keep pace with the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

By: EBR | Friday, February 16, 2018

In today’s era of transformative scientific and technological advances, businesses are not only creating new products and services. They are reshaping industries, blurring geographical boundaries and challenging existing regulatory frameworks

For work-life balance, the Dutch scored 9.3 out of a possible 10, whereas the Danes, now ranked second, scored nine. Of the 35 OECD countries measured in the survey, Turkey’s work-life balance was the worst, rated as zero, while Mexico only scored slightly better with 0.8.

The Dutch have the best work-life balance. Here’s why

By: EBR | Friday, February 16, 2018

The Netherlands has overtaken Denmark as the country with the best work-life balance. That is according to the latest OECD Better Life Index, which ranks countries on how successfully households mix work, family commitments and personal life, among other factors

John McCarthy first coined the term artificial intelligence in 1956 when he invited a group of researchers from a variety of disciplines including language simulation, neuron nets, complexity theory and more to a summer workshop called the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence to discuss what would ultimately become the field of AI.

The key definitions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that explain its importance

By: EBR | Thursday, February 15, 2018

Discussions of artificial intelligence (AI) have created a certain amount of unease by those who fear it will quickly evolve from being a benefit to human society to taking over

Why is it taking so long? The 40th ratification is expected to come around June 2018. Why does DG SANTE not wait until then? And why is it not adhering to the more restrictive provisions of the Protocol, given that according to an analysis by Professor Christian Mestre, former Dean of the Law faculty at Strasbourg University, the EU is under a pre-convention obligation to respect an international agreement even pending the latter’s entry into force.

To veto or not to veto the delegated act on tobacco traceability

By: EBR | Thursday, February 15, 2018

In 2012, the WHO adopted a Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products which totally excludes tobacco manufacturers from participating in tracking and tracing operations

Europe’s ability to stand up to the geopolitical transformations will depend on whether it can practice what it preaches. The harsh, populist messages from Poland and Hungary, the presence of Far Right politicians in the Austrian government with their loud anti-immigrant rants and Muslim-bashing, the treatment of refugees and migrants in many member states, erode Europe’s global standing and moral authority.

Some sneer, but Europe’s soft power really is its strength

By: EBR | Tuesday, February 6, 2018

As the world lurches on, US President Donald Trump and many others talk tough: everyone has zero-sum games on their mind, while the European Union is the odd man out

This year in Davos, at the World Economic Forum’s 48th Annual Meeting, we gathered some of the world’s youth and social entrepreneurs who are committed to improving the state of the world. The Forum’s network of Global Shapers, Social Entrepreneurs and Young Global Leaders operate as a force for good to scale solutions to global and local challenges.

8 ways Davos inspired social change this year

By: EBR | Monday, February 5, 2018

The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018 brought together over 3,000 leaders from business, government, international organizations, civil society, academia, media and the arts

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EU Actually

An as usual divided EU is looking for a more assertive China strategy

N. Peter KramerBy: N. Peter Kramer

In his weekly column, N. Peter Kramer writes about the laborious efforts of the EU member states to find a more assertive China strategy.

Europe

EU hails Hungary’s ’wind of change’ and unlocks €16.4bn for new PM Magyar

EU hails Hungary’s ’wind of change’ and unlocks €16.4bn for new PM Magyar

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has told Hungary’s new prime minister that billions of euros in EU funding are to be unlocked subject to his government pushing through a raft of "long-overdue reforms".

Business

Hotpot, bubble tea and sportswear: China’s new exports take on the world

Hotpot, bubble tea and sportswear: China’s new exports take on the world

Step into pretty much any shopping mall in Singapore and you’re likely to find queues snaking outside shops with catchy names and bright-coloured branding.

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