WASHINGTON, May 3. Bias in the analysis of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has always existed, but now its level is off the charts, he said in an interview Executive Director for Russia at the IMF Alexey Mozhin.
«Bias has always existed in fund analytics, but the extent to which it has reached now is off the charts,» he said.
According to the executive director, there are many examples of how individual negative events are highlighted in relation to some countries and kept silent in relation to others.
«Also, positive events are hushed up for some, but put forward for others. There are a lot of such examples in the fund's documents,» he pointed out.
As an example, Mozhin cited the problems of high public debt, when the emphasis is always on debts in poor countries and middle-income countries, but this is kept silent in relation to high-income countries, where these debts are off the charts, and what to do with them — No answer.