According to the Central Bank of Armenia, during the first half of 2008, cash remittances sent back to Armenia by Armenians working abroad rose by 57. 5 percent and totaled $ 668. 6 million USD, equivalent to 15 percent of the country's first-half Gross Domestic Product.

This graph shows the proportion of world population in extreme poverty 1981 – 2008 according to the World Bank.

Knuth had to stop sending real checks in 2008 due to bank fraud, and instead now gives each error finder a " certificate of deposit " from a publicly listed balance in his fictitious " Bank of San Serriffe ".

In 2006 and in 2008, the World Bank named Georgia the top reformer in the world.

In 2008, the Japanese Central Bank still has the lowest interest rates in the developed world, deflation has still not been eliminated and the Nikkei 225 has fallen over approximately 50 % ( between June 2007 and December 2008 ).

Japanese investment in Cambodia includes Phnom Penh Commercial Bank, a joint venture of Hyundai Switzerland and Japanese SBI Group, opened in 2008.

* LCD TVs was projected to account 50 % of the 200 million TVs to be shipped globally in 2008, according to Display Bank.

According to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund estimates, real GDP growth reduced from 8 % to 2. 7 % in 2009, and exports shrunk 26 % from $ 2. 5Bn to $ 1. 9Bn after a promisingly steady increase up until 2008.

The International Monetary Reserves of the National Reserve Bank ( Dollar, Euro, Yen, Gold, and other currencies ) reached US $ 27 billion by the end of 2007, and US $ 31 billion at the end of 2008.

In 2008 it's GDP in PPP ranked between 147th ( World Bank ) and 153rd ( CIA ) largest in the world.

National Bank of Slovakia with euro sign, November 2008

According to the OECD / World Bank population statistics in Turkey the population growth from 1990 to 2008 was 16 million and 29 %.

According to Central Bank of Venezuela, the government received from 1998 to 2008 around 325 billion USD through oil production and export, and according to the International Energy Agency, to June 2010 has production of 2. 2 million of barrels per day, 800, 000 of which go to the United States of America.

In late 2005, the World Bank, which had extended Yemen a four-year US $ 2. 3 billion economic support package in October 2002 together with other bilateral and multilateral lenders, announced that as a consequence of Yemen ’ s failure to implement significant reforms it would reduce financial aid by one-third over the period July 2005 through July 2008.

Six months later in June of 2008, the IFC and World Bank ultimately backed out of the investment project and expressed dissatisfaction regarding Bertin's ability to meet its sustainability standards.

In 2008, Lehman filed for bankruptcy, Bear Stearns was bought up by JP Morgan Chase with blessing by the U. S. government, and Merrill Lynch was bought up by Bank of America.

* Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, " Understanding Inflation and the Implications for Monetary Policy: A Phillips Curve Retrospective ", Conference Series 53, June 9 – 11, 2008, Chatham, Massachusetts.

Her supposed Mustique indiscretions form an important part of the background of the quasi-historical 2008 film The Bank Job.

* On February 19, 2008, Chevron and Bank of America replaced Altria Group and Honeywell.

On 26 October 2008 Palestine played their first match at home, a 1-1 draw against Jordan in the West Bank.

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Current well-known economists include 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner Paul Krugman, a public intellectual and advocate of modern liberal policies ; Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve ; Ben Bernanke, the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve ; Joseph Stiglitz, an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner, critic of inequality and the governance of globalization, and Chief Economist of the World Bank.

According to the OECD / World Bank statistics population growth in Iran from 1990 to 2008 was 17. 6 million and 32 %.< ref name = IEApop2011 > CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion Population 1971-2008 ( pdf pages 83-85 ) IEA ( OECD / World Bank ) )</ ref > The literacy rate was 80 % in 2007.

* 2008 – Competition in the 2008 Summer Olympics in China proceeded with the women's association football tournament.

* 2008 – The 2008 Summer Olympics officially opened with the opening ceremony at National Stadium, Beijing, China.

* 2008 – A train collision in Shandong, China, kills 72 people and injures 416 more.

Chile concluded FTA negotiations with Australia and an expanded agreement with China in 2008.

In 2008, Chile hopes to conclude an FTA with Australia, and finalize an expanded agreement ( covering trade in services and investment ) with China.

China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937 ( 2008 )

In August 2008, a Comorian delegation visited China on a good-will visit.

On 15 July 2008, the Committee that oversees the administration of the convention between meetings of all the Parties granted China and Japan permission to import elephant ivory from four African government stockpiles, the ivory being sold at a single auction in each country.

Commuter trains are currently uncommon in China, although a small system has been inaugurated in Beijing in 2008.

Retrieved 2007-07-20 .</ ref > " Demand for cement in China is expected to advance 5. 4 % annually and exceed 1 billion tonnes in 2008, driven by slowing but healthy growth in construction expenditures.

The China Railway Seventh Group Co. Ltd will be in charge of the contract, under signed by the China Railway Engineering Corporation, with construction to be started from June 2008.

Afghanistan has signed a copper deal with China ( Metallurgical Corp. of China Ltd .) in 2008, which is to a large scale project that involves the investment of $ 2. 8 billion dollars by China and an annual income of about $ 400 million dollars to the Afghan government.

Since 2008 the United States has charged at least 57 defendants for attempting to spy for China.

The past five years have seen rapid growth in the contribution of Asian nations to the global fluid and powdered milk manufacturing industry, which in 2008 accounted for more than 30 % of production, while China alone accounts for more than 10 % of both production and consumption in the global fruit and vegetable processing and preserving industry.

Metropolitan France 30 %, Singapore 14 %, United States 10 %, China 7 %, New Zealand 6 %, Australia 3 % ( 2008 )

In 2008, the FDA started opening offices in foreign countries, including China, India, Costa Rica, Chile, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.

Commonly in reference to Finland's policies vis-à-vis the Soviet Union during the Cold War, but could refer to similar international relations, such as Denmark's attitude toward Germany between 1871 and 1940, and Taiwan's relation with China since 2008.

For example fluorescent pigs have been bred in the US in 2000, in Korea in 2002, in Taiwan in 2006, in China in 2008 and Japan in 2009.

In August 2008, the appointment of Leung Chin-man as deputy managing director and executive director of New World China Land, subsidiary of New World Development, was greeted with uproar amidst widespread public suspicion that job offer was a quid pro quo for the favours he allegedly granted to NWD.

In March 2008, China banned the movies from its market.