This Watching Brief provides analysis of a recent outbreak Influenza A H3N2v in the United States. The virus is transmitted from pigs to humans, and human transmission rare. There were four confirmed cases 2022 flu season, with contact at swine farms or agricultural fairs.

This paper is concerned with the Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM), an important policy review function of the WTO. From a developing country perspective, a truly effective TPRM should accomplish several interrelated goals which together should add up to a boost to investor confidence in developing country markets. Several improvements that may move us closer to such a regime are discussed. ...

We explore the consequences of placing the Standard Model gauge fields in the bulk of the recently proposed localized gravity model of Randall and Sundrum. We find that the Kaluza Klein excitations of these fields are necessarily strongly coupled and we demonstrate that current precision electroweak data constrain the lowest states to lie above ' 23 TeV. Taking the weak scale to be ∼ 1 TeV, the...

1. South Africa: Summary of faultlines and action points

We offer a new perspective to the unionised wage effects of unilateral trade liberalisation by considering endogenous domestic market structure. Hence, in contrast to the existing works, which focus on the short-run effects of trade liberalisation on unionised wage, we focus on more long-run effects by considering the effects of trade liberalisation on the domestic market structure. Trade liber...

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