The debt of poor countries is growing, warns the boss of the World Bank

For his first exchange with the press, at the opening of the week of the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the boss of the bank, David Malpass, could not avoid the subject. He was questioned on Monday on the case of manipulated data on China in

the bank's

2018

ranking

, which implicates his predecessor Jim Yong Kim and the former number two of the institution, Kristalina Georigieva , who became the patron of the IMF

David Malpass has carefully avoided commenting on the Bulgarian fate, which these days occupies and embarrasses the 24 IMF administrators.

The head of the World Bank assured that the control procedures on the drafting of the report on the business climate - whose publication was canceled this year following the "Chinese affair" - are being revised.

He preferred to highlight another work by researchers at the bank, the statistical report on international debt, published

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