Mª Josep Cascant-Sempere (Kas)

Kas works as a research advisor for Christian Aid in London. She has a background on participatory research and has taught and researched at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain (2009-15) and at IDS during her PhD (2012-16). Her PhD was about tax justice campaigning in Nigeria and the UK. She is currently collaborating in an ICTD study on the gendered dimensions of taxes and other payments in local markets in Nigeria (2018, forthcoming). Broader interests include knowledge inequalities, and the politics of evidence.

Publications

Journal Article

Do tax policies discriminate against female traders? A gender framework to study informal marketplaces in Nigeria

August 2022
Imaobong Akpan & Mª Josep Cascant-Sempere (Kas)
Journal Article

Grounding ActionAid’s Tax Justice Campaigns in Nigeria

April 2022
Mª Josep Cascant-Sempere (Kas)
Research in Brief

Hidden Inequalities: Tax Challenges of Market Women in Enugu and Kaduna States, Nigeria

June 2019
Imaobong Akpan & Mª Josep Cascant-Sempere (Kas)
Working Paper

Hidden Inequalities: Tax Challenges of Market Women in Enugu and Kaduna States, Nigeria

May 2019
Imaobong Akpan & Mª Josep Cascant-Sempere (Kas)
Research in Brief

Integrating Tax Challenges of Local Market Traders in International Tax Justice Campaigns

June 2018
Mª Josep Cascant-Sempere (Kas)
Working Paper

Tax Unrest Among Market Traders: The Local Side of ActionAid’s International Tax Justice Campaign in Nigeria

May 2018
Mª Josep Cascant-Sempere (Kas)
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Blogs

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Trader selling cowpea at Oje market, Ibadan
August 2018|
Blog

Tax Justice – How to integrate local experiences into an international campaign?

by Mª Josep Cascant-Sempere (Kas)

What does tax justice mean at the local level, and how can the experiences of informal market traders be linked with broader international campaigns? This blog draws out insights from ActionAid’s experience of incorporating the demands of market traders in Nigeria into its international tax justice campaign….