UN report calls for temporary basic income to help world’s poorest amid COVID-19

UN report calls for temporary basic income to help world’s poorest amid COVID-19

The report suggests that one way countries could pay for a temporary basic income would be repurposing billions of dollars that would have been spent servicing their debt. Pensioner Anne Snyman leaves Mitchells Plain’s Town Centre after collecting her pension payout on 30 March 2020. She said she stood in line for six hours. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN

NEW YORK – A temporary basic income for the world’s poorest 2.7 billion people in 132 developing countries could help slow the spread of the coronavirus by allowing them to stay home, according to a UN Development Programme (UNDP) report […]

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