Today the World Bank closed a consultation process on their plans to replace the discontinued Doing Business Report (DBR) with the Business Environment Enabling Project (BEE). A coalition of CSOs have delivered a strongly worded submission arguing this is a rebranding exercise which does not address the root problems in the Bank's engagement in private sector advice
Chiara Mariotti
Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer - Development Finance
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- cmariotti[at]eurodad.org
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Chiara is a development economist and joined Eurodad in October 2020 as Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer on development finance. She leads work on IFI’s undue influence on developing countries’ policy and fiscal space and on reforms of global economic governance. Before joining Eurodad, she was Inequality Policy Manager for Oxfam GB, leading their policy and global advocacy work on inequality. Previously, she was a researcher at the Overseas Development Institute, focusing on policy solutions to chronic poverty and combining field, qualitative and quantitative research. She holds a PhD in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and has taught heterodox and political economy in British universities. She is Italian, has lived 13 years in London and is now based in Brussels.