Universal Basic Income to Help Most Affected by COVID-19: ECLAC

Universal Basic Income to Help Most Affected by COVID-19: ECLAC

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Alicia Barcena, ECLAC Executive Secretary, during the presentation of the report. | Photo: ECLAC Immediate cash transfers will help halt the slide into desperate poverty, but universal basic income is needed longterm, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) argues. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said Tuesday that to face the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, governments must guarantee immediate temporary monetary transfers to satisfy basic needs, sustain the consumption of households and achieve a solid and relatively rapid recovery in the region.ECLAC’s […]

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