World Bank Staff Manipulated Global Business Rankings—Boosting Saudi Arabia, China—Internal Audit Finds

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After correcting the data, China and Saudi Arabia fell in the World Bank’s flagship Doing Business rankings.

World Bank staff members were pressured by managers into manipulating data for the bank’s annual ranking of business-friendly countries, an internalWorld Bank Group President David Malpass speaks during a joint press conference with IMF ManagingDirector Kristalina Georgieva on the recent developments of the coronavirus, COVID-19, and the organizations' responses on March 4, 2020 in Washington, DC.

The World Bank said Saudi Arabia should not have been named a “top improving economy” in the 2020 report, with its ranking falling from 62 to 63 factoring in the correct data.The audit did not detail who on the World Bank’s management team was responsible or what their motivations were, but former World Bank Chief Economist Paul Romer

 

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Yep, history is written by the winners and powerfuls, which might explain why the top countries on those list are often 'tops', it's a bias game from the very beginning. 😾

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