Mariana Iootty is a Senior Economist at the World Bank working in the Macroeconomics Trade and Investment Global Practice, Markets and Competition Policy team. Mariana is a Brazilian national and has been with the World Bank for 6 years, during which time she led projects on innovation financing, regulatory impact assessment, global value chain analysis, trade competitiveness assessment and productivity analysis in several countries in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Her main area of research is microeconomic analysis of economic development and firm performance.  Prior to joining the Bank, Mariana was a tenured assistant professor in Brazil, and a visiting fellow in the University of Reading, UK.