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/7215760594469486