Investigation finds World Bank leaders pushed staffers to boost rankings for China and Saudi Arabia in high-profile reports

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The World Bank says it will stop publishing its annual Doing Business economic report after an independent investigation found bank leaders placed "undue pressure" on staffers to alter data to inflate the rankings for China and Saudi Arabia in 2018 and 2020 editions of the report.

source https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/17/business/world-bank-investigation/index.html

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