From left: Author Hein Marais, head of IEJ Budget Justice Zimbali Mncube, IEJ senior research associate and author Dr Kelle Howson and Maverick Citizen editor Mark Heywood. (Photos: Supplied) Researchers conversed with Maverick Citizen editor Mark Heywood during a webinar on Thursday about how feasible having a universal basic income (UBI) would be for South Africa.
Speakers suggested the long-term impact of a UBI would be economic inclusion and pulling the population out of poverty, among other benefits that could balance the most unequal society in the world. They also acknowledged that a UBI was a “slippery and unstable concept” […]
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