A big need: Covid-19 has rammed home the necessity of social protection and a universal basic income grant
OUTPUT TYPE: Newspaper article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): G.Pienaar, T.Hart, M.Makoae, Y.D.Davids, B.Roberts
KEYWORDS: COVID-19, INCOME GRANT, SOCIAL PROTECTION
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Web link: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-10-01-a-big-need-covid-19-has-rammed-home-the-necessity-of-social-protection-and-a-universal-basic-income-grant/
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11554
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15496
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15496
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Abstract
Chronic unemployment and poverty have deepened despite numerous interventions. Over and above Covid-19 impacts, they amount to a chronic disaster that is unravelling our wellbeing and social cohesion and weakening our constitutional democracy. A pilot basic income grant offers a way out of the looming crisis.-
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