Washington correspondent
It is embarrassing that an independent cabinet appointed by the World Bank claims that China has been given unfair preferential treatment to improve its ranking in a report on the business climate in countries around the world.
The situation becomes even more delicate when it directly involves the person who has since become Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva.
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The latter, at the IMF for nearly two years, was previously Managing Director of the World Bank, then chaired by Jim Yong Kim.
Pinned today by the law firm WilmerHale for having pressured the bank staff in 2017 to favorably revise its judgment on the practices of the Chinese authorities, this 68-year-old Bulgarian economist, former European commissioner, proclaims its "
fundamental
disagreement
with the conclusions and interpretations
" of the report.
WilmerHale, appointed by the board
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