Re: World Bank Paints Ghana Black

Our

attention has been drawn to a recent publication in a Ghanaian

newspaper on the above subject. We wish to state that these

images are not the way the World Bank sees Ghana. To the contrary, we

see Ghana

as a country that has made impressive strides over the last ten years

and more,

with a record of growth and progress in improving the lives of its

citizens. It

is now close to being a middle income country.

The

images were not part of any Bank-supported exhibit and have now been

removed

from the archives. We regret their use and publication, and any offense

they so

understandably caused.

We

have been working on new guidelines

to govern all images owned by the World Bank and will undertake a

review of our

collection accordingly.

To

see how the World Bank really sees

Ghana, please visit the World Bank Ghana website at this link:

http://www.worldbank.org/ghana.

Additional

images are available at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/sets/72157605944694861/