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Parliament’s car emissions inquiry urgently needs more information from the EU Commission, it says in a resolution voted on Tuesday. Half-way through its mandate, the Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector (EMIS), has yet to receive some Commission documents on emission measurements and details of expert group work on vehicle type approval procedures, notes the text. The inquiry’s final report is due in spring 2017.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission visited Vilnius during September 6-12, 2016, to discuss economic developments and government policies with the Lithuanian authorities.

On September 7, 2016, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Kiribati.

Australia should follow up on the reform of its vocational education system by improving quality control in the VET sector and step up career guidance for young people to boost young people’s job prospects and reduce the share of under-30-year-olds who are not in employment, education or training (NEETs), according to a new OECD report.

The World Bank disbursed US$ 1 billion to Egypt for the First Fiscal Consolidation, Sustainable Energy, and Competitiveness Programmatic Development Policy Financing (DPF), on 9 September.

The World Bank Groups’ Board of Executive Directors approved an additional financing loan in the amount of EUR 3.0 million (US$ 3,343,800 equivalent) for the Montenegro Institutional Development and Agriculture Strengthening Project (MIDAS), on September 9.

The world economic outlook remains weak. Recent months have been characterised by subdued domestic demand and productivity growth in advanced economies amid a further growth slowdown in many emerging economies. According to the OECD’s latest Economic Outlook of 1 June 2016, world GDP growth is projected to remain weak, despite a gradual improvement from 3% in 2016 to 3.3% in 2017.

Sasha Dudley and partner Peter Taylor in Croydon, are some of the first tenants to benefit from one of the 5 associations piloting the new rights ahead of the scheme going nationwide.

Air pollution has emerged as the deadliest form of pollution and the fourth leading risk factor for premature deaths worldwide. Those deaths cost the global economy about US$225 billion in lost labor income in 2013, a new study finds, pointing toward the economic burden of air pollution.