You are way off topic. The person who opened this thread is talking about foreign direct investment. FDI means getting a controlling ownership in a business enterprise in one country by an entity based in another country.

The definition of FDI does not include buying junk bonds.

Junk bonds are covered under portfolio foreign investment, which is a passive investment in the securities of another country such as public stocks and bonds

Yes it is easy to fake your balance sheet that trick investors into buying bonds, stocks and other investments that can be easily disposed of.

But if you want an investor to come and create real jobs in your country by investing in factories, services or even real estate, its much harder to fool them.

How will you fool them into thinking your country has good transport infrastucture when they can clearly see a city choking in traffic?

How will you cheat them that security is good and the crime rate is low?

And you have decided to be narrow. The thread title is Is Ethiopia faking economic growth stats? ...and my point is its possible, with bad results. So it doesn't exactly fit the intended narrative of FDI, so what? I hope I got the message across.
To be pedantic, like you i) the original poster didn't offer an opinion or additional commentary, just a copy-paste of the article and a link [ -so you can't possibly infer what they intended] and
ii) I replied to your comment in which no mention of FDI is made.

Thanks @quicksand.

I haven't decided anything. Unlike you, I actually read the article that was posted.

When a thread is started, most readers generally read the initial post before commenting. You seem to read only the header which is rather shallow. Its like reading only newspaper headlines instead reading the actual text.

The author of the article under discussion is claiming that Ethiopia is faking stats to attract FDI, not portfolio investments.

The very first sentence in the pasted article ias as follows:

Using fabricated economic data to seek legitimacy and attract foreign direct investments, the regime then advanced narratives about its double-digit economic growth, ............

There is literally nothing in that article that is of any relevance to selling bonds. I mean the article mentions GDP growth and the agricultural sector. ..........

I always wonder what your metric is to define acts noted in blue if not what is defined in the law? ama we dream up these things or they come to us in revelation or we get lectured on what is wrong or right by le professeur alba?
anyway I digress... continue lecturing us on what we need to do to move to the next level.