Washington Post Hits IMF’s Georgieva, Attacks `China’s Influence over Multilateral Institutions’

The second editorial in today’s Washington Post criticizes IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva (with her picture) for supposedly helping China investment prospects in 2018 when she was Chief Executive of the World Bank under President Jim Yong Kim. The World Bank’s Doing Business report started in 2003 had given China low ratings as an economy for investment. In 2018 the ranking improved, and “progressive” World Bank staff members objected, leading to an investigation by an outside law firm (WilmerHale, the major D.C. firm, in which Robert Mueller is a partner) which said that Georgieva had “pressured” the staff – also regarding Saudi Arabia and U.A.E. The charge is supposedly now being investigated by the IMF’s ethics committee. The World Bank paused publishing Doing Business reports after deciding to review “data irregularities,” and has discontinued the publication as of Sept. 16, 2021.