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2008-07-10 Kosovo prime minister Hashim Thaci had submitted the applications for full membership to World Bank and International Monetary Fund representatives.
-- According to Hajredin Kuqi, Kosovo deputy prime minister on July 11
2008-04-13 “In many developing countries, the poor spend up to 75 per cent of their income on food. When prices of basic foods rise, it hits hard."
-- Robert Zoellick, World Bank President
2008-01-05 The unrest "threatens impressive recent gains in economic growth and poverty reduction
-- Statement of the World Bank
2007-10 Robert Zoellick, World Bank president, argued that the bank should continue to lend to countries such as China, India and Brazil because they still had large shares of the world's poor.
2007-07-02 China’s State Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) and health ministry asked the World Bank to cut the calculations of premature deaths (750,000 people) from the report “Cost of Pollution in China”, when a draft was finished last year.
-- according to World Bank advisers and Chinese officials.
2007-07 Sixteen of the world’s 20 most polluted cities are in China.
-- World Bank research
2007-07 * High air-pollution levels in Chinese cities is leading to the premature deaths of 350,000-400,000 people each year.
* About 300,000 people die prematurely each year from exposure to poor air indoors
* About 60,000-odd premature deaths were attributable to poor-quality water, largely in the countryside, from severe diarrhoea, and stomach, liver and bladder cancers.
-- World Bank, 2007-07
2007-06-25 Robert Zoellick was unanimously elected President of The World Bank for a five-year term, taking over from Paul Wolfowitz on 1 July
2007-04 It is revealed that Paul Wolfowitz, in response to nepotism rules evoked when he became director of the World Bank, arranged for Riza, his significant other, to be posted to the State Department and to be granted several large raises, increasing her salary to more than $193,000
2007 The oil and gas sector accounted for about two-thirds of Russia's export revenues in 2007
-- According to World Bank

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