In the Autumn 2006 edition of CentrePiece:

In this edition:

The economic impact of 9/11

Major events like the terrorist attacks on New York of 11 September 2001 generate large but typically short-lived bursts of uncertainty. New research by Nick Bloom explores the effects of such shocks on employment, inves... Read more...

Panic on the streets of London

The terrorist attacks of 7 July 2005 resulted in a very large redeployment of police officers to central London boroughs. New research by Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and Robert Witt looks at the impact of this increased ... Read more...

The China effect

The economic emergence of the world's most populous nation is having a big impact on everyone else. Tony Venables and Linda Yueh analyse which countries, industries and workers are likely to benefit and which may lose ou... Read more...

Cutting child mortality: the power of parents

Why do some poor communities have levels of child mortality as low as those in wealthy countries while others lose more than a fifth of their children under the age of five? Research by Peter Boone shows that the key lie... Read more...

The collapse of the Doha trade round

The Doha failure may undermine WTO credibility and ferment distrust in developing countries. Read more...

HIV/AIDS prevention: the potential of primary education

Can education policy offer solutions to Africa's AIDS epidemic? Harvard University?s Michael Kremer, who visited CEP this past summer, reports on the evidence from four primary school-based interventions in Western Kenya... Read more...

Tackling depression and anxiety disorders

Most people with mental illness should be offered the choice of psychological therapy. Read more...

Rwanda: the costs of conflict for subsistence households

We know that civil conflict is hugely costly for poor countries but how can we measure the costs of such strife for individuals? Florence Kondylis looks at the impact of the waves of ethnic violence and consequent mass m... Read more...

Edmund Phelps, Nobel laureate

CEP congratulates Professor Edmund S. Phelps of Columbia University on being awarded the 2006 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Read more...