The expansion of social protection has been discussed since the White Paper on Social Security of 1998. Our next guest argues that universal basic income should not been seen as social welfare but as economic stimulus. Our next guest argues that universal basic income is one of seven pillars that required to turnaround South Africa’s outlook and address the declining living standards of the past 19 years. They take it one step further and have proposed that the government needs R656,9 billion to implement universal basic income over the next three years. 

Guest: Nomahlubi Jakuja - Head of Research at the Social Policy Initiative 

Guest: Russell Wildeman - Social Policy Specialist at the United Nations Children’s Fund

The expansion of social protection has been discussed since the White Paper on Social Security of 1998. Our next guest argues that universal basic income should not been seen as social welfare but as economic stimulus. Our next guest argues that universal basic income is one of seven pillars that required to turnaround South Africa’s outlook and address the declining living standards of the past 19 years. They take it one step further and have proposed that the government needs R656,9 billion to implement universal basic income over the next three years. 
Guest: Nomahlubi Jakuja - Head of Research at the Social Policy Initiative 
Guest: Russell Wildeman - Social Policy Specialist at the United Nations Children’s Fund

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