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1. Taxation and Gender Equity

   A Comparative Analysis of Direct and Indirect Taxes in Developing and Developed Countries

   Edited by Caren Grown, Imraan Valodia

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   Around the world, there are concerns that many tax codes are biased against women, and that contemporary tax reforms tend to increase the incidence of taxation on the poorest women while failing to generate enough revenue to fund the programs needed to improve these women’s lives. Because taxes are...

   Published May 13th 2010 by Routledge
2. The Feminist Economics of Trade

   Edited by Irene van Staveren, Diane Elson, Caren Grown, Nilufer Cagatay

   Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics

   Unravelling the complex relationship between gender inequality and trade, this is the first book to combine the tools of economic and gender analysis to examine the relationship between international trade and gender relations. It brings together fourteen contributions from a variety of economic...

   Published June 27th 2007 by Routledge
3. Development Crises and Alternative Visions

   Third World Women's Perspectives

   By Gita Sen, Caren Grown

   More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social inequalities. During the 1975-85 United Nations...

   Published February 28th 1998 by Routledge