Andrew Sheng

The writer is a distinguished Fellow of the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong and a member of the UNEP Advisory Council on Sustainable Finance.

Can AI unlock productivity and growth?

If you watched Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's remarkable presentation at Taipei Computex last month, you would be convinced that AI has ushered in a new Industrial Revolution, in which accelerated computing with the latest AI chips unleashed the power of doing everything faster, more efficiently, and with less energy

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Can tech giants solve climate change and social inequality?

The Great Tech story implies that the world will see a smaller group of winners who bigger clout than the rest.

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A global state of disunion

In other words, the world is in disunion not just from wealth and income disparities, but through the widening digital and knowledge application gaps.

7m ago

To be treated as equals to the West, the Global South must decolonise its minds

In an over-crowded planet, the system is inherently unstable when we attempt to resolve differences via conflict and war

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Has the West lost the Rest?

The images and news coming out of Gaza are so horrific that I cannot think of anything hopeful or constructive that can come of this cataclysm.

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How stable is the global financial system really?

The global financial system looks stable, because central banks have shifted more and more debt onto their books.

1y ago

Are we apes fighting over a burning planet?

The profit model of business has ignored climate change for too long.

1y ago

Will Singapore or Hong Kong finance the South’s next transition?

The global financial system is in a real bind.

1y ago
November 1, 2016
November 1, 2016

Why Economics won't help us today

As all of us watched the US Presidential debates and await the outcome of the elections in early November with bated breath, I was struck by how much the world is moving on different planes.

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