Policy Brief

Tax and Gender in Developing Countries: What are the Issues?

ICTD Summary Brief 6

This ICTD Summary Brief is the sixth in our six special research synthesis pieces, produced at the end of the ICTD’s first five-year funding period in Spring 2016.

This brief explains what we have learned about gender and taxation and looks at: why taxation  is relevant for gender; where gender is relevant in taxation; bias in tax structures; amongst other themes.

Authors

Anuradha Joshi

Anuradha Joshi is a social scientist with a PhD in Public Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA with extensive experience in policy processes and institutional analysis. She is also a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Her research interests lie in state-society relationships around the delivery of public services and accountability.
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Publication Details

Publisher: ICTD
Date: February 2017
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Keywords: developing countries, gender and tax, gender equality, gender implications, ICTD, tax bias, taxation