A file photo of a villager showing his mobile phone’s monitor displaying a message confirming the universal basic income transaction, Sh2,250 per month (19.5 euros), in Bondo, Siaya County. What you need to know:
In Kenya, a non-governmental organisation, GiveDirectly, started a UBI project in rural Kenya paying about Sh80 of $.075 daily for at least 12 years since 2017.
Transfers significantly improved well-being on common measures such as hunger, sickness and depression in spite of the pandemic, but with modest effect sizes. This is the third of my articles aimed at resetting our development discourse. In […]
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