Egypt could institute a limited basic-income policy in order to avoid problems with more traditional cash-transfer programmes, writes Beesan Kassab
Basic income by other means
Cash transfers for all was how Philippe Van Parijs, a professor of politics and economics, explained the concept of basic income at a lecture at the American University in Cairo (AUC) last week.A basic-income policy is a programme through which citizens of a country may receive a regular sum of money from a source such as the government without strings attached as their “basic income”.In his lecture at AUC, Van Parijs, one of […]
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