Using cash handout to combat poverty

Using cash handout to combat poverty

72-year-old Samson, a villager of universal basic income study, gets off from his car in Bondo region, western Kenya, on October 3, 2018. – Samson receives 2,250 shillings per month (19.5 euros) and he uses the money on buying feeds for his fishfarm. | Photo Credit: In Kenya’s Siaya County, a cash handout known as “universal basic income” has been introduced. It’s part of a large, intensive, multi-year study aimed at discovering a new way to end poverty in Africa.

Molly, a villager, began receiving a no-strings, fixed monthly donation of 2,250 shillings ($22) two years ago, and since then […]

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