According to the ProPublica podcast[1] (published this past week, so probably the catalyst for this 2015 article on HN), The World Bank was collecting data for

According to the ProPublica podcast[1] (published this past week, so probably the catalyst for this 2015 article on HN), The World Bank was collecting data for decades on displacements, but wasn't consuming it for anything useful. The ICIJ + ProPublica FOIAed the data and painstakingly assembled it. [1] https://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/the-breakthrough-how-an-icij-reporter-dug-up-world-banks-best-kept-secret https://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/the-breakthrough-how...