https://www.scmp.com/rss/316185/feed Thu Ha Chow is head of fixed income Asia and a portfolio manager in the Robeco Global Credit Team with a focus on Asian credit. She has 26 years of experience in the industry including various senior fixed-income positions in Asia and London. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com After Covid-19 disruptions resulted in increasing concerns about manufacturing supply chain vulnerabilities, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine prompted markets to adopt a laser-like focus on energy costs and their implications for industry. Yet, markets’ focus on disrupted and costlier industrial energy have left a far more worrying prospect largely forgotten: food shortages. Food security, defined as the accessibility of adequate nutrition at affordable prices, is a major global challenge. The... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3231140/how-asia-can-invest-averting-food-crisis-caused-climate-change?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3231140/how-asia-can-invest-averting-food-crisis-caused-climate-change?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Aug 2023 12:28:03 +0000 You would have seen the images: identikit tower blocks reaching for the skies; skeletal cranes standing idle; lifeless blocks of flats amid the detritus of construction. Photo editors used to turn to these images to illustrate the mainland's "ghost cities". Of late, they seem increasingly apt in indicating a broader malaise: falling property prices; slowing land sales and construction activity; the impending day of reckoning for highly indebted local governments. Indeed, the consensus now is... https://www.scmp.com/business/economy/article/1611650/chinas-property-market-unlikely-be-us-style-disaster?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/economy/article/1611650/chinas-property-market-unlikely-be-us-style-disaster?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Oct 2014 22:00:15 +0000