The Citizen’s Account Program in Saudi Arabia is a cash transfer program that started in December 2017. The program is adopted and implemented by The Ministry of Labor and Social Development [1] . Through the program, citizens in Saudi Arabia get monthly payments from the state. Saudi Arabia is doing many reforms to reduce the country’s dependency on oil revenues , but many of these reforms have made some people poorer. The Citizen’s Account, which is a form of basic income , is designed to balance this up, to avoid higher rates of poverty which would otherwise occur despite […]
Full Post at en.wikipedia.org