Basic Income Grant: South Africa CAN Afford To Pay It

Basic Income Grant: South Africa CAN Afford To Pay It

Social grant recipients rally outside parliament in Cape Town calling for increases to grant rates in 2017. Photo by Christopher Webb The first two articles in this series focused on defining a Universal Basic Income Grant (UBIG) and explaining its impacts and the evolving debate about its implementation. One of the most contested issues in the debate is whether or not South Africa can afford it. That’s the topic we tackle in this last article in the series.

Debates about the affordability of a UBIG tend to focus on the “gross” financing costs – the amount of money the government […]

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