John Milton wrote in Paradise Lost: βFor no falsehood can endure/ Touch of celestial temper.β
Of course, Milton was writing about Satan and his βdevilish artβ of βforging illusionsβ.
I am seething in temporal temper over the World Bankβs βdevilish artβ of economic numerology, Mephistophelian cunning in making deals with corrupt African thugtators and the infinite ability of its experts to forge illusions, lies , damned lies and statislies to ensure their own job security.
The World Bank has once again stoked my temper in its latest report on Ethiopia. For the third time in 2015.
Last week, the World Bank issued its 166-page report on Ethiopia entitled, βEthiopiaβs Great Runβ.
That report is the biggest hogwash, whitewash and brainwash I have ever read.
In 2010, Meles Zenawi, the late leader of the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front (T-TPLF), described the European Union Election Observer Missionβs report documenting his daylight robbery of the 2010 election as βuseless trash that deserves to be thrown in the garbageβ.
If one wants to read a report in 2015 that is a 24-carat piece of useless trash that deserves to be thrown in the garbage, one need go no further than the World Bankβs βEthiopiaβs Great Runβ.
By God! Is there no limit to how low those doggone liars at the World Bank will stoop to hatch out lies, fabricate damned lies and manufacture statistics just to kiss up to a corrupt-to-the-bone thug regime and bend over backwards to cover up the truth?
Well! They stooped lower than a snakeβs belly in βEthiopiaβs Great Runβ.
I hate liars.
Especially hired liars. Liars who lie for a few pieces of silver. Liars who would prostitute their professional expertise and skills for a buck or two. Liars who are hypocrites. Boldfaced liars.
Educated and trained liars who would use fancy lingo to make corruption respectable; fraud honorable and theft, waste and abuse of a nationβs treasury virtuous.
The World Bank liars will torture the truth to extract lies; they will massage the statistics to bury the truth six feet under; and they will concoct truth out of whole cloth lies.
The so-called international experts, consultants and international poverty pimps at the World Bank cranking out bogus economic reports on Ethiopia make me sick. I want to throw up every time I read their garbage reports.
I ask myself: Why the hell do I force myself to read the crock of s**t the World Bank cranks out on Ethiopia when my shelves are stacked full with literary masterpieces?
I answer myself: Could it be because I have a secret fascination for fables, fantasy, mythology, fairy tales and fiction written by international poverty pimps?
It has been said that βthere are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.β
The World Bankβs βEthiopiaβs Great Runβ does both.
The lies, damned lies and βstatisliesβ (a word I coined to describe the use of statistics by international poverty pimps to dignify lies and damned lies) of the World Bank begins with a bold-faced lie in the first sentence of the Executive Summary (p.4):
Ethiopiaβs economic growth has been remarkably rapid and stable over the past decade. Real GDP growth averaged 10.9 percent in 2004-2014, according to official data.
The footnote to this statement (they are hoping no one will read it) explains:
The IMF (2013b) has argued that official real GDP growth rates may have been overestimated by as much as 3 percentage points in recent years. Even by this more conservative estimate, a growth acceleration is beyond dispute. (Emphasis added.)
The first sentence of the Executive Summary is a statislie ( a statistical lie) with a disingenuous disclaimer in the accompanying footnote.
The simple translation of the statislie is this: Ethiopiaβs real GDP growth is really not 10.9 percent (it could be 6.5, 7 or 8.9 percent), but who is counting? Who cares!?
Regardless, the reader should believe Ethiopiaβs GDP growth to be 10.9 percent (not 11 percent, of course!)
After all, the World Bankβs data collection and analysis is so accurate and precise, they can assert with fractional certainty that it is 10.9 and not 11 percent.
The first sentence of the Executive Report is intended to captivate the readersβ attention and wow them from the get go. It is intended to be a statistical shock and awe!
Once the β10.9 percent annual growth over the past decadeβ is firmly and subliminally planted in the readerβs mind and the reader concioulsy or subliminally accepts this βofficial dataβ as true and accurate, the rest of the 165-pages is a propaganda narrative and fantasy tale which merely explains how this fantastic βgrowth acceleration beyond disputeβ has been achieved.
But whoa! whoa! whoa! World Bank! Not so fast!
There is a hell of a lot of dispute about the βgrowth acceleration [that is] beyond disputeβ.
So letβs back up and ask some simple questions of the World Bankβs experts.
Is a statistical difference between 8.9 percent and 11.9 percent statistically significant?
For instance, according to a report released last week on the growth of the U.S. economy, βfor all of 2015, the rate of economic growth is expected to be about 2.5 percent, not much different from the 2.4 percent rate in 2014.β
If we accept the World Bankβs statistical logic of a 3 percent βmargin of errorβ (?) and applied it to the U.S., it would appear the U.S. experienced negative growth, possibly heading inexorably to a deep recession or depression.
Is the βofficial Ethiopian governmentβ figure of 10.9 (why not round it off to 11 percent?) or the International Monetary Fundβs (IMF) figure of 7 (?) 8(?) percent accurate?
In 2013, for instance, the IMF reported Ethiopiaβs βGDP growth seen slowing to 6.5 pct in 2012/13 from 8.5 pct.β
Is the official self-serving data provided by the βgovernmentβ intrinsically more reliable than the IMFβs estimate such that the World Bank would give the βofficial dataβ greater accuracy and primacy by citing it in the first line of its Executive Summary as intrinsically more reliable and authoritative? (The World Bank knows most reasonable people would not bother to read their hogwash and among the daring few who would read it, nearly all of them will only read the Executive Summary (thatβs because they donβt want to throw up). Only βunreasonableβ people like myself will waste their time trudging in a 166-page statistical sewer.
Is the βgovernmentβsβ data any more reliable than the IMFβs βestimatesβ?
Is the difference in data between the βofficialβ figures and the IMF estimates the same difference between the data and estimates provided by Tweddle Dee and Tweddle Dum?
Is any official data generated by the T-TPLF regime, the IMF or World Bank or any of the other loaners and donors have any credibility?
If the World Bank, the IMF and the other loaners and donors are being spoon-fed their data by βEthiopian officialsβ, how credible could that figure be?
Will the T-TPLF actually tell the truth about economic growth rate or is it highly likely to dress up the figures to make themselves look good?
Why do the World Bank, the IMF and the other loaners and donors rely on patently false βofficial figuresβ to base their analysis of the growth of the Ethiopian economy?
After all, these international poverty pimps have their own enlightened self-interest to protect by writing fictional stories of GDP growth under the T-TPLF as they bury that poor country in debt while being wined, dined and schmoozed over fine cognac and caviar in posh hotels in Addis Ababa.
Stop!
Can any data provided by a regime that claimed to have won elections by 99.6 percent in 2010 and by 100 percent in 2015 possibly be credible in the least?
The Central Statistics Agency (CSA) and the βNational Accounts Department of the Ministry Finance and Economic Developmentβ are the two official institutions in Ethiopia under the control of the T-TPLF that are responsible for keeping track of the statistical data which is cited proudly and authoritatively by the World Bank.
But neither organization has the institutional capability to collect reliable and accurate economic data, let alone assemble complete and comprehensive data sets which could serve as empirical bases for economic prognostications.
That fact was emphatically stated on March 24, 2010 in the official statement of Paul Mathieu, the IMF team leader who, after conducting an evaluation of the current half fiscal year economic performance of Ethiopia, said: βStatistics collection of the country requires transformations, and we advised the government to do that.β
Translated from βdiplomateseβ into ordinary language, Mathieuβs statement makes it plain that the statistics and data generated and used by the T-TPLF to describe Ethiopiaβs economic performance and make predictions are basically βcooked upβ and garbage in, garbage out data.
It took the World Bank 4 years to even begin to address the issue of T-TPLF data collection.
In a βProject Appraisal Documentβ dated May 28, 2014, the World Bank declared it would commit USD$10 million βto enhance the capacity of the Central Statistical Agency (CSA) at the organizational, human, and physical levels in order to produce and disseminate reliable, accessible, and timely statistics.β
On September 4, 2014, βa team of 15 IBM experts presented its recommendations to Ethiopian leadersβ on a variety of statistical data collection methodologies and processes including βtext-based communicationsβ, βintegrated IT systemβ, βcollection and analysis of key labor market dataβ, βmobile and analytics technologies to gather and analyze data about nutrition, water, sanitation, and hygieneβ.
In its September 2015 report on Ethiopia (IMF Country Report No. 15/300; see e.g. footnotes on pp.4-6; 22-29), the IMF, in willful ignorance, continued to use the same worthless and totally discredited statistical data published by the T-TPLF in its report:
Historical GDP data published by the IMF are those issued by Ethiopiaβs Central Statistical Agency. Staff projections for GDP are based on an underlying growth rate that is lower than that of the authorities, and that reflect identified weaknesses in national accounts data (see paragraph 45).
In its assessment of βdata adequacyβ of official T-TPLF sources, IMF Report No, 15/300 stated βas of August 26, 2015β (p.8):
General: Data provision has shortcomings that hamper surveillanceβ¦
Government finance statistics: Despite recent improvements, government fiscal statistics continue to be affected by shortcomings in terms of coverageβ¦
Monetary statistics: Monetary survey data for commercial banks are subject to substantial revisionsβ¦
Financial statistics: Information gaps about the financial sector have implications for conducting an in-depth assessment of financial sector healthβ¦
Balance of payments: Balance of payments data require improvements in coverage, valuation, timing, and classification of current account transactions⦠An exploratory survey needs to be conducted to verify the actual investment made in Ethiopia and to establish the universe of the enterprises with private cross border capital.
Why the hell are the IMF and World Bank in 2015 using βfiscal statistics [that] continue to be affected by shortcomingsβ, data with βinformation gapsβ that βhave implications for conducting an in-depth assessment of financial sector,β and βmonetary survey data subject to substantial revisionsβ, etc.?
Could it be that they are trying to con-vince us about things that exist only in the computer codes of their economic models? (I did not say con us.)
The simple and incontrovertible fact of the matter is that the statistics used by the World Bank, the IMF and all of the other international poverty pimps to support their claims of exaggerated claims and projections of Ethiopiaβs stratospheric βaccelerated economic growthβ and red-hot performance of key economic sectors are based exclusively (with the exception of a few estimates) on data collected, chopped, diced, sautΓ©ed, braised, grilled, roasted, stewed and seasoned in the kitchens of the Central Statistical Agency under the direction and supervision of the Executive Chefs of the T-TPLF.
Just as a brief retrospective!
Back in 2008, the IMF gave βtongue-in-cheekβ endorsement to the unreliable and worthless data generated by the T-TPLF statistical office to praise the economic prowess of the T-TPLF.
IMF Country Report (Ethiopia) No. 08/264 (July 2008), stated:
Growth has averaged 11 percent since 2003/04, far exceeding the minimum target of 7 percent in the Program for Accelerated and Sustainable Development (PASDEP), that is estimated to be consistent with keeping the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) within reach.
In the footnotes of that Report on pp. 20-24, the origin of the data indicating an 11 percent growth is not the IMF or some other independent data collection and analysis source but the very same Central Statistics Office of the T-TPLF: βSources: Ethiopian authorities; and IMF staff estimates and projections.β
Similarly, the data source for βFinancial Soundness Indicators for Bankingβ is identified as the βNational Bank of Ethiopia; and IMF calculations.β
The IMFβs 2013 report (IMF Country Report No. 13/308) is no different.
The data used in the 2013 report also comes from βEthiopian authorities and IMF staff estimates.β (See e.g. pp. 9-10; 17, 32-39.)
In 2013, the IMF reported Ethiopiaβs βGDP growth seen slowing to 6.5 pct in 2012/13 from 8.5 pct.β
In 2012, the IMF reported, βWhile inflation remains high (21 percent at end-2011/12), real GDP growth, which is estimated at around 7 percent in 2011/12 and is projected to decline to 6.5 percent in subsequent years under the continuation of current policies.β
The T-TPLF policies did not change; therefore we should reasonably expect a decline to 6.5 percent in subsequent years.
Not according to the World Bank!
In its November 2015 βEthiopiaβs Great Runβ report, the World Bank insists Ethiopia under T-TPLF rule has posted an annual growth rate of 11 percent (sorry, I meant 10.9 percent) for the preceding decade.
What a con job by the World Bank!
My long time readers know that I have been fighting the World Bankβs lies, damned lies and statislies for some time now. (Please donβt ask me where the Ethiopian economists are in fighting the World Bankβs world of lies?)
In January 2015, I posted a commentary entitled, βWorld Bank-ruptcy in Ethiopiaβ challenging the World Bankβs lies about the success of the T-TPLFβs βGrowth and Transformation Planβ about the World Bankβs βDeception Gamesβ of displacement, deracination, forced resettlement and a kinder and gentler form of ethnic cleansing in the Gambella region of Western Ethiopia.
On February 2, 2015, I posted a commentary entitled, βThe World Bank and Ethiopiaβs βGrowth and Transformationββ debunking the World Bankβs clever narrative aimed at extolling the skillful management of the Ethiopian economy by the T-TPLF and its own self-glorification that it and the other donors and loaners have played a central and decisive role in lifting out of poverty and transforming a once famine-stricken country into a shining example of loan- and aid-based development (an oxymoronic claim on its face).
On February 8, 2015, I posted a commentary entitled, βEthiopiaβs βOdious Debtβ to the Odious World Bankβ. βOdious debtβ is βillegitimate national debt incurred by a regime for purposes that do not serve the best interests of the nation and therefore should not be enforceable against the people of the debtor nation.β
In that commentary, I asked the question: βAre the people of Ethiopia responsible for the World Bankβs βodious debtβ accumulated by the T-TPLF?β
I also answered it: HELL, NO!
I wonβt go through the other commentaries I have written exposing the lies, damned lies and statislies of the World Bank. They are all on my website at almariam.com.
I have been outing the lies of not just the World bank but also their panhandling minions, the T-TPLF.
In June 2010, I wrote a commentary entitled, βThe Voodoo Economics of Meles Zenawiβ challenging the late Meles Zenawiβs claims of 12 percent annual growth which was reminiscent of the proverbial Ethiopian bull that gave birth to a calf (or in Amharic βbere weledeβ). (I did not say Melesβ bull s**t about economic growth.)
In June 2011, I wrote a commentary entitled, βEthiopia: The Fakeonomics of Meles Zenawiβ debunking Meles Zenawiβs βGrowth and Transformation Planβ (GTP) and demonstrating that it was an βeconomic planβ which floated on a sea catchphrases, clichΓ©s, slogans, buzzwords, platitudes, truisms and bombast. (I did not say a bull s**t economic plan.)
In March 2009, Meles Zenawi bragged that he expected the Ethiopian economy to grow by 12.8 percent.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) disagreed in the same month stating that given the global economic crises Ethiopia could expect only about 6% economic growth.
Meles Zenawi dismissively countered IMF experts who pointed out the discrepancies:
We have differences with the international financial institutions when we predict our economic growth, but we usually agree on the economic growth statistics at the end of each year.
The question remains: Did the Ethiopian economy grow by 10.9 percent (not 11 percent) over the past decade?
βEthiopiaβs Great Runβ: Garbage in, Garbage Out
The World Bankβs latest report βEthiopiaβs Great Runβ is simply a βgarbage data in, garbage data outβ report that is βuseless trash that deserves to be thrown in the garbageβ, to borrow a phrase from the late Meles Zenawi.
βEthiopiaβs Great Runβ is metaphor swiped from the annual run in Addis Ababa.
On November 29, 2009, exactly 6 years ago today, I wrote a commentary entitled, βThe Great Ethiopian Run to Freedomβ on the occasion of the annual βGreat Ethiopian Runβ that year.
In that piece, I argued that the βGreat Ethiopian Runβ was the Great Ethiopian Run to Freedom.
I said that βRunβ was fundamentally an act of mass civil disobedience thinly disguised as a running event. The multitudes were not just running for freedom, they were also running away from tyranny and dictatorship, despair and hopelessness, and from their daily life of indignity and humiliation under the ruthless dictatorship of the T-TPLF.
The World Bank with its βGreat Runβ metaphor wants to suggest the T-TPLF is winning the marathon for economic growth.
The report purports to βaddress two questions: What explains Ethiopiaβs growth acceleration? How can it be sustained?β
So the World Bank claims:
Ethiopiaβs economic growth has been remarkably rapid and stable over the past decade.
Accelerated economic progress started in 1992 with a shift to an even higher gear in 2004.
The recent growth acceleration was part of a broader and very successful development experience.
Growth was concentrated in services and agriculture on the supply side, and, private consumption and investment on the demand side.
Growth decompositions reveal relatively high contributions from total factor productivity and structural change.
Ethiopia stands out in many ways, including in the economic strategy that paved the way to success.
Heterodox financing arrangements supported one of the highest public investment rates in the world.
Ethiopiaβs economic strategy was unique.
Economic growth was driven primarily by structural improvements.
Public infrastructure investment, facilitated partly by restrained government consumption, was the key structural driver of growth.
The strong contribution of infrastructure investment arises from a substantial physical infrastructure expansion combined with their high returns.
Ethiopiaβs growth acceleration was also supported by positive demographic effects.
Agricultural output increases were driven by strong yield growth and increases in area cultivated.
The factors associated with agricultural production growth include extension services, remoteness and farmerβs education.
Recent agricultural growth is largely explained by high government spending on extension services, roads, education as well as favourable price incentives.
The report concludes:
Following a decade-long spell of double digit growth on the back of a strategy and performance that seemingly emulates the East Asian developmental states, including China, one might assume that such high growth rates can be sustained in the future on the back of the same strategy that worked so well in the past.
What a crock of s**t!!!
Let me just say a word or two about βagricultural growthβ in the World Bank report.
In 2010, the late Meles declared that he would consider his government a success if Ethiopians were able to eat three meals a day.
Meals, if I am not mistaken, usually come from agricultural production.
Excuse me! I meant from international panhandling.
In November 2015, the U.N. issued a warning that 15 million Ethiopians could starve to death unless international food aid is delivered to them soon.
In February 2014, it was reported that βEthiopia finds itself in critical need of donorsβ assistance, in order to feed 2.7 million people.β In 2014, βNo fewer than 2.7 million Ethiopians may need food assistance in spite of the reported bumper harvest of 231 million quintals of grains in the 2013 fiscal year.β
In 2013, Ethiopia received nearly $700m in humanitarian aid to feed over 4 million people.
In September 2012, βThe Ethiopian government announced last month that 3.7 million of its citizens will require humanitarian assistance between August and December of this year, up from 3.2 million in January.β
In 2011, international humanitarian food aid to Ethiopia, the bulk of it US aid, amounted to nearly $500 million.
In August 2010, UN FAO reported, βAn estimated 5.2 million [Ethiopians] still depend on emergency food assistance and agencies agree on a severe situation of high hunger in the long term.β
In August 2009, it was reported that βMillions of impoverished Ethiopians face the threat of malnutrition and possibly starvation this winter in what is shaping up to be the countryβs worst food crisis for decades. Estimates of the number of people who need emergency food aid have risen steadily this year from 4.9 million in January to 5.3 million in May and 6.2 million in June.β
The World Bank raves about Ethiopiaβs agricultural growth under the T-TPLF.
Does the world Bank know more than 15 million people in Ethiopia TODAY are in need of food aid by the beginning of 2016, according to the U.N.?
Need I say more?
For the World Bank, the IMF and all the other international poverty pimps who pimp the T-TPLF, the death of one person is tragic. But the deaths of 15 million Ethiopians in a preventable and needless famine is just a statistic.
I get it! I know what the international poverty pimps are trying to do for the T-TPLF.
The international poverty pimps want to keep the T-TPLF in power because the T-TPLF makes business in Ethiopia good for them.
The international poverty pimps want to tell Ethiopians and the world that they are doing good in Ethiopia; they are lifting the poor and improving their lives and saving millions of famine-stricken Ethiopians from mass starvation.
The fact remains that despite the incredible claims of economic growth attested by the World Bank and the other international poverty pimps, tens of millions of Ethiopians are starving to death under T-TPLF rule.
The fact remains millions of young Ethiopians today remain unemployed and trapped in hopelessness. βThere is no official unemployment rate, but youth unemployment, some experts reckon, may be as high as 70%.β That was true in 2007; it is true today.
The fact remains there is no rule of law and human rights violations are widespread in Ethiopia TODAY!
I donβt doubt the World Bank has a right to its opinion about the stratospheric βaccelerated economic growthβ in Ethiopia managed by the T-TPLF.
But the World Bank does not have the right to invent its own facts; it does not have the right to use facts invented for it by liars who claim with a straight face they won the national election by 100 percent; it does not have the right to collude with others to invent and concoct (I think they call it βestimatesβ) facts; and it does not have the right to dress up lies in the robes of institutional respectability and vomit it on a fed-up Ethiopian public.
Whether or not the T-TPLF has accomplished βdouble-digitβ economic growth over the past decade is not a matter of wishful thinking, public relations or statislies by the international poverty pimps.
It is a matter of evidence: accurate, complete, reliable and comprehensive statistical evidence that is systematically and carefully collected, analyzed and verified.
Such evidence cannot be invented, fabricated, manufactured, contrived, concocted or cut from whole cloth by the T-TPLF, the IMF, the World Bank or any other unholy conclave of international poverty pimps.
βEthiopia is stuck thanks to its paranoid elite.β The Economist Magazine
In May 2015, The Economist magazine in an article entitled, βNeither a sprint nor a marathonβ, wrote:
When a new Chinese ambassador arrived in Addis Ababa in February, he presented an unexpectedly awkward message to his hosts. La Yifan told the ruling eliteβbehind firmly closed doorsβthat it must discard the isolationism of the past and open up an economy in which the flow of money and information is still restricted. Banking and telecoms are almost antediluvian (see chart). Investors are frustrated. Trade lags expectations. After years of praising the government, the Chinese are now singing from the same hymn sheet as Ethiopiaβs Western critics.
β¦ The problem is a lack of courage [by] many in the Ethiopian government, ruling party and security apparatusβ¦ The fear of being overthrown looms behind the eliteβs reluctance to reform.
The situation has become worse not better since the death in 2012 of Meles Zenawiβ¦ By force of personality, intellect and ties forged in battle he could on occasion shift the system forward. Admittedly, he hated the private sector and civil society. But at least he removed logjamsβ¦
The prime minister [Hailemariam] is no Melesβ¦ Before ministers make decisions now they often need to seek the consent of the old guard. And ethnic Tigrayans, of whom Meles was one, still control the army, security services, telecoms and foreign affairs. It will take at least another decade for them to retire or dieβ¦
The new prime minister[Hailemariam] is a reasonable and, to some extent, reform-minded man. But he is a relatively weak figureβ¦
One senior member of the Chinese community in Ethiopia describes, with some frustration, what he sees as the countryβs big problem: that in China the central government dominates the regions but in Ethiopia everything is federalβ¦ Overall, many Chinese see a country that is dotted with too many powerful barons.
What the Chinese wonβt say but many Western observers do is that political repression also weakens the system. Young people are angry and jobless. Outlets for their frustration are quickly shut off. Sensible opposition leaders are pushed into exile or prison, ceding the field to hotheads. Universities have grown more than tenfold but there are insufficient jobs for all these bright new graduates.
Ethiopia is stuck thanks to its paranoid elite.
So, the international poverty pimps at the World Bank, the IMF and elsewhere should know, βEthiopiaβs Great Runβ is βneither a sprint nor a marathonβ.
βEthiopiaβs Great Runβ is a lie, a damned lie and a statislie! It is a βforged illusionβ.
Just one last question for the World Bank: If Ethiopia is such shining example of economic growth, βWhy is Ethiopia the Second Poorest Country on the Planet? (For the answer, read my June 2014 commentary by the same title.)
18 U.S. Code Β§ 1001 β βKnowingly and willfully using any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entryβ
It is a crime for agencies and institutions under the βjurisdictionβ of the United States Government to engage in official publication of materially false, misleading and deceptive statements or information.
18 U.S. Code Β§ 1001 provides,
[W]hoeverβ¦ in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfullyβ (1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact; (2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation; or (3) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry; shall be fined under this title, imprisonedβ¦
I have heard rumors that the United States Government is the βlargest shareholderβ in the World Bank Group.
Is the World Bank Group βwithin the jurisdiction of the executiveβ branch of the U.S. Government?
I will make the World Bank an offer it canβt refuse!
If the World Bank stops telling lies, damned lies and statislies about the T-TPLF-led economic growth in Ethiopia, I will stop telling the truth about the World Bankβs lies, damned lies and statislies to the world.