Chiara Mariotti

Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer - Development Finance

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.

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07 Apr 2021
Chiara Mariotti

Special Drawing Rights: A three trillion dollar question (Infograph)

What are Special Drawing Rights and why are they so important to the global recovery post-Covid? Find out more in this interactive infographic. 

Read our detailed analysis on SDRs | Click to expand the infograph

  • Development Finance
  • IFIs
07 Apr 2021
Chiara Mariotti

The 3 trillion dollar question: What difference will the IMF’s new SDRs allocation make to the world’s poorest?

The US$650 billion allocation of SDRs proposed by the IMF will not support the post-Covid economic recovery of the poorest countries. In the following article, we set out the argument for a much larger allocation, one worth US$3 trillion.

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  • Development Finance
  • Covid-19
18 Mar 2021
Chiara Mariotti

How many scandals will it take for the World Bank to start doing rights not rankings?

  • The publication of the World Banks’ 2021 Doing Business Report was stopped in August 2020 following a scandal that uncovered data manipulation and altered scores in four countries.
  • As a result of these irregularities, Saudi Arabia was named the top improving economy of 2020 around the time of the “Davos in the Desert” summit and a year after the Khashoggi murder.
  • The World Bank has launched another review of the Doing Business methodology and is finally seeking feedback from CSOs, but for a meaningful and participatory consultation it must extend the deadline for feedback and organise a follow-up discussion.
  • Aid Effectiveness
  • IFIs
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