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Publication

1 January 2016

Business people’s views of paying taxes in Ethiopia

Published by: ICTD and IDS

This study examines factors that determine business people’s attitudes towards paying taxes in Ethiopia. Based on data obtained from a survey of business taxpayers in Addis Ababa, the study finds a statistically significant relation between tax-compliance attitude and factors such as the perception of probability of audit, corruption, satisfaction with the tax administration, peer influence, gender and education.

Wollela Yesegat
Odd-Helge Fjeldstad
Odd-Helge Fjeldstad
International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) Ethiopia Sub Saharan Africa
Book

1 January 2016

Dianne Rocheleau: The Feminist Political Ecology Legacy and Beyond

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

With original and engaging contributions, this Handbook confirms feminist scholarship in development studies as a vibrant research field. It reveals the diverse ways that feminist theory and practice inform and shape gender analysis and development policies, bridging generations of feminists from different institutions, disciplines and regions.

Publication

20 November 2015

Violence against Women in the Gaza Strip: After the Israeli Military Operation Protective Edge 2014

Published by: Alianza por la Solidaridad & Action Aid

Following the Israeli military Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014, this reports presents the findings of a study initiated by ActionAid and Alianza por la Solidaridad (Alianza) on violence against women (VAW) in the Gaza Strip.

Gender Based Violence in the Gaza Strip After Israeli Operation ‘Protective Edge’ Israel Middle East and North Africa Palestine
Journal Article

17 November 2015

Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility

Published by: IDS

Between 2007 and 2012 global food price volatility affected millions of people on low and precarious incomes. As food has been increasingly commodified and people on low incomes have struggled to pay for life’s necessities, they have responded by changing their ways of making a living, residences, diets, family relationships and ways of caring for one another.

Patta Scott-Villiers
Patta Scott-Villiers
Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility
Book

1 November 2015

Why Women Will Save the Planet

Published by: Zed Books

Women's empowerment is critical to environmental sustainability, isn't it? When Friends of the Earth asked this question on Facebook half of respondents said yes and half said no, with women as likely to say no as men.

Report

28 October 2015

Sexuality, Development and Non-conforming Desire in the Arab World: The Case of Lebanon and Egypt

Published by: IDS

In many developing countries, sexual rights are commonly depicted as trivial concerns pertaining to wealthy citizens of a ‘developed’ Western world. The ‘developing’ world is often thought to have more pressing problems to deal with, such as poverty, violence and corruption.

Sexuality, Poverty and Law Programme Egypt Lebanon Middle East and North Africa
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