A worker wears a protective face mask on a residential construction site, following the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Reuters)
As countries across the world reel under the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, UN experts called on governments to introduce Universal Basic Income (UBI) and cautioned that massive fiscal stimulus packages alone would not be tenable to fight the crisis.
“In the COVID-19 outbreak frenzy, several countries are considering massive fiscal stimulus packages and printing money, to blunt the concurrent crises underway: the pandemic and the unravelling economic depression,” said Kanni Wignaraja, Assistant Secretary-General of […]
Full Post at www.news18.com