“The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting has been heavily on the rosy side since about 2000. The Bank's cultivation of an upbeat picture affords a very interesting lesson in statistics and how you can, depending on which numbers you present and how you present them, create a more positive or more negative impression of the evolution of poverty.”
![“The Bank and the media continue to propagate the story that the global elite wishes to be told: that the number of poor has declined by 24 percent in those 15 years [1990-2005].” quote by Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fba/thomas-pogge-7757_elites_the-bank-and-the-media-continue-to-propa_1381073.jpg)
