A big need: Covid-19 has rammed home the necessity of social protection and a universal basic income grant

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Pienaar, G., Hart, T., Makoae, M., Davids, Y.D. & Roberts, B. A big need: Covid-19 has rammed home the necessity of social protection and a universal basic income grant. Daily Maverick. Online. (20 October 2020).http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15496

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/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15496

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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20 Oct 2020

COVID-19
SOCIAL PROTECTION
INCOME GRANT

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