Aid targets still to be met
Romesh Vaitilingam | August 04, 2025The UK’s New Labour government has been a vocal participant in international development debates. The Conservative party, should it come to power in 2010, promises to keep up the efforts.
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Economists discuss the financial crisis
Romesh Vaitilingam | May 26, 2025Increasingly, researchers are debating issues on the Internet, through blogs and other forums, rather than just in journals and at conferences. Each issue of The Broker will now include an ‘Online debate’ section, which provides summaries of exper...
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Be well …
Romesh Vaitilingam | January 30, 2025Leading aid models focus on economic growth and poverty reduction. The well-being approach aims for more comprehensive change. A recent study designed tools for implementing this new concept.
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Romesh Vaitilingam is a writer and media consultant. He is the author of numerous articles and several books on economics, finance and public policy, including The Financial Times Guide to Using the Financial Pages (FT-Prentice Hall), now in its fifth edition. As a specialist in translating economic and financial concepts into everyday language, Romesh has advised a number of government agencies and international institutions, including the European Central Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the UK’s Department for International Development. His work also involves media consultancy for the economic research community, notably advising the Royal Economic Society, the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (for which he is an editor of Vox). In 2003, he was awarded an MBE for services to economic and social science.