As of 2007, the World Bank estimated that 26 % of the Burkinabé population has access to financial services.

As a portion of the population, Georgia was named as largest emigration countries in the world in the 2007 World Bank report.

In 2006 there was one operational set of traffic lights but in July 2007, a modern system was installed by Indian firm CMS Traffic Systems Limited, through a US $ 2. 1 million line of credit to the government from India ’ s EXIM Bank, providing signals for both vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe revalued on 1 August 2006 at a ratio of 1 000 ZWD to each second dollar ( ZWN ), but year-to-year inflation rose by June 2007 to 11, 000 % ( versus an earlier estimate of 9, 000 %).

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 ).

In February 2007, the World Bank identified Karachi as the most business-friendly city in Pakistan.

Despite these pressures, consumer price inflation has remained low ( 2. 2 % according to the Central Bank of Malta 2nd Quarterly Report in 2007 ), reflecting the impact of a fixed exchange rate policy ( 100 % hard peg to the euro, in preparation for currency changeover ) and lingering price controls.

In 2007 the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative ( EITI ) was mainstreamed in all countries cooperating with the World Bank in mining industry reform.

The World Bank approved a US $ 500 million soft loan in July 2007 to finance projects in the basin over a 12-year period.

The World Bank has promised Paraguay assistance totaling US $ 325 million between 2003 and 2007.

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.

On February 5, 2007, State Street announced the nearly $ 4. 5 billion acquisition of Investors Financial Services, parent of principal subsidiary custodian bank Investors Bank & Trust.

The deal closed on July 2, 2007 and created the world's second largest custodian with approximately $ 14. 1 trillion of assets under custody, second to only The Bank of New York Mellon at $ 15 trillion.

The World Bank reported in 2007 that only about 1. 5 % of the population had a telephone resulting in the emergence of ten fiercely competitive telephone companies.

The World Bank classifies Turkey as an upper-middle income country in terms of the country's per capita GDP in 2007.

In June 2007, Hamas took control of the entire Gaza Strip, and established a separate government while Fatah remained in control of the West Bank.

Membership with the World Bank, under the aegis of Ranjit Nayak, the World Bank Representative in Kosovo ( since February 2007 ), has resulted in Kosovo being treated by the World Bank as its 186th member country, and no longer under the United Nations Security Council Resolution No. 1244.

* 2007: Oded Balilty of The Associated Press, " for his powerful photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces as they remove illegal settlers in the West Bank.

In 2007, the EIB opened a regional office in Helsinki, located at the headquarters of the Nordic Investment Bank ( NIB ), with a view to enhancing the Bank ’ s presence in the Baltic Sea region

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.

country code-55 ; landing point for a number of submarine cables, including Atlantis 2, that provide direct links to South and Central America, the Caribbean, the US, Africa, and Europe ; satellite earth stations-3 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ), 1 Inmarsat ( Atlantic Ocean region east ), connected by microwave relay system to Mercosur Brazilsat B3 satellite earth station ( 2007 )

* February 2007 North America Winter Storm

On 1 October 2007, BBC World News started broadcasting BBC World News America and World News Today at 00: 00 and 03: 00 UKT respectively.

** international: country code-56 ; submarine cables provide links to the US and to Central and South America ; satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ) ( 2007 )

Baseball America named the Colorado Rockies the " Organization of the Year " for their accomplishments during the 2007 season.

5, # 30 ( Sept. 2007 ), Stark receives a letter containing Rogers ' request that Bucky become the next Captain America, which Bucky agrees to do four issues later.

In 2007 Don McLean signed with the Asgard Agency in London giving them responsibility for booking concert tours outside North America.

" Consistent with this tradition, the 2007 version of the current 15th edition was " dedicated by permission to the current President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, and Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II ," while the 2010 version of the current 15th edition is " dedicated by permission to Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Fan activism in support of the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike through Fans4Writers appears to be an extension of this trend.

The people of Honduras are among the poorest in Latin America ; Gross national income per capita ( 2007 ) is $ US 1, 649 ; the average for Central America is $ US 6, 736.

Connick toured North America and Europe in 2007, and toured Asia and Australia in 2008, as part of his My New Orleans Tour.

CNN and Money magazine rated Hanover the sixth best place to live in America in 2011, and the second best in 2007.

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 – 1848 ( 2007 ), Pulitzer Prize ; a sweeping interpretation of the entire era

On March 26, 2007, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York followed suit and began accepting openly homosexual candidates for admission for their Rabbinical program.

As of 2007, there were over 7 million llamas and alpacas in South America and, due to importation from South America in the late 20th century, there are now over 158, 000 llamas and 100, 000 alpacas in the United States and Canada.

In 2007, US Congressman Alce Hastings introduced a bill to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the first use of the name " America " with the support of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Organizing Committee and mayors in fifty states to champion the national strategy " Bring Home The Spirit of History in your town ".

Riccardo Gaudino, historian for the America500 Birthday Extravaganza Movement ( 2007 – 12 ) led the campaign for Who Named America?

* John Hessler: The Naming of America: Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 World Map and the Cosmographiae Introductio, Library of Congress, 2007

For the 2007 season, the NFL scheduled the Giants ' road game against the Miami Dolphins on October 28 in London's Wembley Stadium ; this was the first NFL regular-season game to be played outside of North America.

: An attempt to unify Muslims on a scientifically calculated worldwide calendar was adopted by both the Fiqh Council of North America and the European Council for Fatwa and Research in 2007.

*" America ’ s Opera Boom " By Jonathan Leaf, The American, July / August 2007 Issue