An independent investigation released by the law firm WilmerHale on September 16 found that high ranking staff members at the World Bank rigged data in the 2018 and 2020 editions of its flagship “Doing Business” report in order...
At The New York Times, Alan Rappeport reports that the World Bank this week announced it would scale down development work in the Xinjiang region following allegations that funds from a $50 million education project loan granted...
Agence France-Presse reports that the World Bank removed a section of its recently released China...
March 31st marked the deadline to become a founding member of the soon-to-be-established Asian...
According to an updated report from the World Bank’s International Comparison Program, China...
Last Wednesday, an official from the National Development and Reform Commission laid out...
While China’s severe income inequality has become an increasingly prominent issue in recent months, new estimates from the World Bank on extreme poverty around the globe (PDF) show another side to the country’s...
China has not made its Gini coefficient public since 2000. The Gini coefficient is a measure of income inequality, ranging from 0, or perfect equality, to 1, or perfect inequality. A figure above 0.4 is widely believed to...
The World Bank lowered its growth forecast for China to 7.7 percent on Monday, 0.5 percent below its April estimate, according to the China Daily: The World Bank also lowered China’s growth forecast in 2013 to 8.1 percent,...
CDT previously reported on the possible economic strain from the Diaoyu Island dispute between China and Japan. As Chinese surveillance ships arrive in the region, the tensions between the two nations continue to escalate. The...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC0p6W_oN3Q[/youtube] The World Bank published a nearly 500 page report Monday, co-authored with a government think-tank, which prescribes a roadmap of reform for the Chinese economy as it...
The World Bank and a Chinese government think tank will release an economic report on Monday, called “China 2030,” which warns of a hard landing for China unless it enacts reforms to a system dominated by...
Caixin magazine recently reported the National Bureau of Statistics’ failure for an eleventh consecutive year to release the country’s Gini coefficient, a key measure of economic inequality. Now, China Daily...
China has seemed to endure the financial crisis relatively unscathed. Now, a new assessment by the World Bank estimates that China may be able to sustain its strong economic growth for the long-term, potentially even surpassing...
The Guardian reports and illustrates new data on global carbon emissions which shows China pulling further ahead of the US, almost offsetting the expected dip in emissions caused by the global recession. While US emissions fell...
In The Independent, Johann Hari writes about China’s “ecological disintegration”, heavily citing Jonathan Watts’ book, When A Billion Chinese Jump. Swiping at “gasbag” Thomas Friedman’s...
In its quarterly report, the World Bank has adjusted its growth outlook for China. From the Washington Post: The bank raised its 2010 growth outlook from 9.5 percent to 10 percent and its growth outlook for next year from 8.5...
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