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Romesh Vaitilingam

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Economics writer on new findings, policy analysis & commentary from a wide range of researchers & institutions; editor-in-chief of @EconObservatory

Joined March 2013
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Kenya’s government faces the challenge of meeting its debt obligations, while avoiding further unrest. President William Ruto must find ways to raise money, manage the economic recovery from Covid-19 and respond to the threat of climate change. buff.ly/4fUbOhu


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🇬🇧 Today, the @ONS released new data, finding that the UK labour share – the proportion of national income going to workers – has shown a marked increase since 1995 compared with other G7 nations. 👇🧵 #ChartOfTheDay

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NEW on the Economics Observatory - Kenya’s economy: how is the government tackling the big challenges? By Seth Weisz @Cambridge_Uni #EconTwitter 👇💷 buff.ly/4fUbOhu


Central bank digital currency: while consumers may initially prefer to use more traditional payment methods, a design tailored to their specific needs could significantly increase uptake of a #CBDC - @voxeu cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…


Russian firms exposed to economic sanctions in 2014 successfully leveraged international connections with partner countries that maintain friendly relations with #Russia to lessen the adverse effects of the sanctions, @voxeu cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…


The combined forces of constrained aggregate demand due to global debt & a likely normalisation of the risk premium suggest a return to the low interest rate environment that characterised the pre-pandemic era, @voxeu cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…


How does Europe facilitate a pro-competitive environment that can meet global challenges without harming our consumers? @voxeu on joining competition policy with trade & industrial policy cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…


UK services firms circumvented expected future Brexit barriers by switching to less affected modes, such as commercial presence sales; this meant lower UK jobs growth as services exporters prioritised jobs at their new foreign affiliates, @voxeu evidence cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…


The Russian economy is not strong; fiscal stimulus is creating inflation rather than growth & the central bank is having to deal with the collateral damage of Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, @voxeu counters Russia's economic war propaganda cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…


Romesh Vaitilingam Reposted

📊📈📉 !!! REMINDER !!! The @bankofengland Watchers' Conference will be held on Monday, 25 November 2025! See the posts and links below for more details. 👇 @RoyalEconSoc @BoE_Research @ECB_Research @FedResearch @BIS_org

Delighted to announce the next Bank of England Watchers’ conference, to be held on 25 Nov 2024, 08:15 to 17:30, at King's College London. It is an annual event which seeks to bring together the diverse community of people who have an interest in the work of @bankofengland 1/2



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UKRI is recruiting a Director to lead work on R&D and Place. A great opportunity for an action-oriented leader who wants to tackle the many well-documented issues of the geography of R&D in the UK! careersportal.taleo.net/careersection/…


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Chicago Booth’s Kent A. Clark Center for Global Markets polled a panel of finance experts to examine the end-of-day deluge in many financial markets. @chicagoboothrev ms.spr.ly/6017Wmp0v


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🇬🇧 Today's @ONS figures reveal that public borrowing – the difference between spending and tax income – reached £17.4 billion last month, the second-highest October figure since monthly records began in 1993. #ChartOfTheDay

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NEW on the Economics Observatory - What can sport learn from economics and economics from sport? By @TimHarcourt #EconTwitter 👇⚽🏈🏉 buff.ly/3CtHbRP


China’s recent policies to promote its shipbuilding industry, @voxeu evidence on their rationale & impact cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…


Roots of health inequality between rich & poor: @voxeu evidence from the #Netherlands that while mortality differences are most apparent in old age, chronic illness starts shaping these inequalities much earlier in life than commonly recognised cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…


Local citizens in any aid context are better treated not as passive recipients but as active participants in developing their own communities, @voxeu evidence from contrasting early C20th outcomes of Presbytarian & Methodist missions to #Korea cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…


For central banks seeking to shape the public's inflation expectations, dynamic audiovisual methods, such as audio & video, are significantly more effective than static media, such as text or photo, particularly for less informed audiences, @voxeu cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…


Romesh Vaitilingam Reposted

🍳 🥓 Since 2022, the average price of bacon and sausages has climbed by 11%, while eggs have seen a 13% increase. Prices for mushrooms, tomatoes, bread, and butter remained relatively stable. Today's @ONS figures reveal the price changes for your favourite breakfast foods.…

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Romesh Vaitilingam Reposted

How has productivity changed in the UK's devolved nations over the past 25 years? In this @EconObservatory article, @ruthanned880 & I look at productivity in Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales since 1998, & the explanations for their differing performance economicsobservatory.com/devolution-at-…


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