politicization

Ian Bremmer shares his Quick Take analysis on the scandal surrounding the IMF and its Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, former number two at the World Bank - the origin of the crisis. The World Bank's annual "Doing Business" report is used by investors to assess competitiveness of different governments around the world. And as one might imagine, there's a lot of jockeying and lobbying behind the scenes by these governments to try to show that they're doing a great job and that their rankings should be high. Enter China, in an enormously politicized environment.