Rachel Etter-Phoya

Senior Researcher

Short bio

Rachel Etter-Phoya is Lilongwe-based Senior Researcher with the Tax Justice Network’s policy team and Research Assistant with the University of St Andrews’ Government Revenue and Development Estimations (GRADE) project. With GRADE, Rachel studies the global influences on government revenue, including tax abuse, and its impact on development and human rights, especially for children. Before this, Rachel has worked for over 10 years in Malawi, where she grew up, with the Revenue Development Foundation in the Ministry of Energy, Natural Resources and Mining, human rights organisation Citizens for Justice, Save the Children, and the German development agency’s (GIZ) public financial management programme. Rachel is an associate with Resources for Development and serves as an advisor for British government financed governance programme, Traction, implemented by Palladium in Malawi. Rachel holds a LLM in Natural Resources Law and Policy from the University of Dundee, a MSc in International Rural Development from the Royal Agricultural University, and a BA in Anthropology and English from the University of Zurich.

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The tax justice and climate crisis crossroads in resource-rich Africa

By Rachel Etter-Phoya ■ 3 October 2023 ■ 4 min READ
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Taxes, a matter of life or death

By Rachel Etter-Phoya ■ 19 July 2023 ■ 5 min READ
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Africa makes progress to end anonymous companies

By Rachel Etter-Phoya ■ 13 March 2023 ■ 5 min READ
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A win for African leadership on international tax

By Rachel Etter-Phoya ■ 7 December 2022 ■ 3 min READ ■ 1 comments
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African Ministers call for UN tax convention to protect against financial secrecy supplied by the richest nations

By Rachel Etter-Phoya ■ 27 May 2022 ■ 4 min READ
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African countries improve on Financial Secrecy Index, call for UN tax convention to end plunder

By Rachel Etter-Phoya ■ 20 May 2022 ■ 5 min READ
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Africa and the corrosive international tax system

By Rachel Etter-Phoya ■ 18 May 2021 ■ 7 min READ
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Beneficial ownership transparency in Africa: The state of play in 2020

By Rachel Etter-Phoya ■ 1 July 2020 ■ 5 min READ
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Corporate income taxation in the digital age: Africa in the Corporate Tax Haven Index 2019

By Rachel Etter-Phoya ■ 29 August 2019 ■ 3 min READ
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How can Africa take action against corporate tax havenry? Solutions from the Corporate Tax Haven Index 2019

By Rachel Etter-Phoya ■ 18 June 2019 ■ 7 min READ ■ 1 comments
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The UAE and Mauritius are the most corrosive corporate tax havens against African countries – Tax Justice Network Africa

By Rachel Etter-Phoya ■ 30 May 2019 ■ 2 min READ ■ 1 comments
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Does transparency really put the rich and famous at risk?

By Rachel Etter-Phoya ■ 20 March 2019 ■ 10 min READ
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Africa’s battle against financial secrecy: Financial Secrecy Index

By Rachel Etter-Phoya ■ 14 February 2018 ■ 5 min READ
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#ParadisePapers: The Mauritian Connection

By Rachel Etter-Phoya ■ 15 November 2017 ■ 5 min READ