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

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

In a world of rapid technological progress and increasing international competition, how can European countries improve their poor employment performance? Christopher Pissarides argues that much needs to change in the lower productivity, more labour-intensive service sectors of the economy.

The last issue of CentrePiece reported research by Florence Kondylis on the costs of conflict-induced migration for individual households in Rwanda. In this issue, she explores similar questions for people displaced and resettled as a result of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

China apparently has more trade union members than the rest of the world put together. But as David Metcalf and Jianwei Li have found, Chinese unions function very differently from unions in the West.

Does good management and higher productivity come at the expense of work-life balance? Or is good work-life balance an important component of the management of successful firms? New research by Nick Bloom, Tobias Kretschmer and John Van Reenen finds evidence for a hybrid view between these two...

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 out from the continuing challenge of the China effect.

A central focus of current education policy is to expand parents' choice over where their children go to school and to promote competition between schools. A long-running CEP research programme by Stephen Gibbons, Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva has been assessing the effects on both educational...

People who move from compact to sprawling neighbourhoods do not gain weight.

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.