Research areas
Rachel Etter-Phoya is research fellow with the School of Medicine. She is also senior researcher with the .
Rachel studies the global influences on government revenue and its impact on development and human rights. She is particularly interested in the impact of the extractive industries on governance and revenue and the outcomes for fundamental rights in Africa.
As part of the Government Revenue and Development Estimations project team, she looks at the influence of tax revenue and debt servicing on access to fundamental rights, especially for children. These include the right to water and sanitation, education and healthcare.
Rachel has worked for 15 years in Malawi, where she grew up, in governance and revenue reform. She has worked with the in the Ministry of Energy, Natural Resources and Mining in Lilongwe, human rights organisation Citizens for Justice, Save the Children, and the German development agency (GIZ) public financial management programme in Malawi.
Rachel is an associate with and serves as an mining and natural resource governance advisor for several British government financed programmes in Malawi.
Rachel holds a Master of Laws in Natural Resources Law and Policy (Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee, UK), a Master of Science in International Rural Development (Royal Agricultural University, UK), and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and English (University of Zurich, Switzerland).
Selected publications
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Open access
Etter-Phoya, R., 25 Mar 2025, Tax Justice Network.
Research output: Other contribution
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Open access
O'Hare, B., Loewenson, R., Etter-Phoya, R., Custódio David, G. & Eilish, H., 21 Jul 2025, Tax Justice Network.
Research output: Other contribution
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Etter-Phoya, R., Murray, S., Hall, S., Masiya, M. & O’Hare, B., 19 Mar 2025, In: PLOS Global Public Health. 5, 3, 28 p., e0004218.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Etter-Phoya, R., O'Hare, B.A.-M., Loewenson , R., Custódio David, G. & Hannah, E. A., 2 Apr 2025, Mobilizing for health justice: Global Health Watch 7. Labonté, R., Bodini, C., Loewenson, R., McCoy, D., Blandina, D., Nambiar, D., Falcão, M., Paremoer, L., Milsom, P., Ram, R. & Serag, H. (eds.). 7 ed. Wakefield, Quebec, Canada: Daraja Press, p. 1-14 14 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Cobham, A., Etter-Phoya, R., Harari, M., Lorenzo, F. & Mager, F., 21 May 2025, The Palgrave handbook of development finance. Kararach, G., Moreira, E. P. & Murinde, V. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 103-121 19 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Michel, B., Knobel, A., Lorenzo, F., AteÅŸ, L., Harari, M., Etter-Phoya, R. & Villanueva, G., 23 Jun 2025, Tax Analysts.
Research output: Other contribution
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Etter-Phoya, R., 11 Feb 2025, In-depth analysis of reporting trends using the GRI Tax Standard: a deep dive into the adoption of GRI 207: Tax 2019 among a subset of the largest public companies worldwide. Amsterdam: Stichting Global Reporting Initiative, p. 31-32 2 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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O'Hare, B.A.-M., Etter-Phoya, R. & Stephen, H., 24 Apr 2024
Research output: Other contribution
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Open access
Hannah, E. A., Etter-Phoya, R., Lopez, M., Hall, S. & O'Hare, B.A.-M., 4 Jan 2024, In: PLOS Global Public Health. 4, 1, 28 p., e0002721.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
O'Hare, B.A.-M., Etter-Phoya, R., Hannah, E. A., Nkhoma, M. D. & Hall, S., 10 Aug 2024, 12 p.
Research output: Other contribution
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