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WilmerHale probe says Georgieva pressed staff to alter China's Doing Business ranking

On 16 September 2021 a WilmerHale investigation commissioned by the World Bank found that senior bank leaders, including then-CEO Kristalina Georgieva, applied pressure to change data to improve China's ranking in the Doing Business 2018 report.

Kristalina Georgieva (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 16 September 2021 a WilmerHale investigation commissioned by the World Bank found that senior bank leaders, including then-CEO Kristalina Georgieva, applied pressure to change data to improve China's ranking in the Doing Business 2018 report. Georgieva disputed the findings and the IMF board later expressed confidence in her.

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  • Kristalina Georgieva

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    WilmerHale probe says Georgieva pressed staff to alter China's Doing Business ranking. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

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  1. 1.aljazeera.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, keywords: georgieva+doing business+china · verified
  2. 2.cnbc.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, keywords: georgieva+doing business+china · verified

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Factrail. (2026). WilmerHale probe says Georgieva pressed staff to alter China's Doing Business ranking. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/wilmerhale-doing-business-report-georgieva-2021-09-16

https://factrail.ai/facts/wilmerhale-doing-business-report-georgieva-2021-09-16

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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