Professor Stephen Devereux INTERVIEW - 17 Sep 2020
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Social protection experts have called on the South African government to make the COVID-19 emergency relief measures permanent from October, especially the one that allows citizens aged 18 to 59 to access state assistance for the first time ever.
The country has crossed a critical threshold in making income available to working-age people, according to experts in the field, so recognising that this group merits help in a country beset by grinding poverty, spiralling unemployment and deeply entrenched inequality.
One of the experts behind this thinking is Professor Stephen Devereux...
The country has crossed a critical threshold in making income available to working-age people, according to experts in the field, so recognising that this group merits help in a country beset by grinding poverty, spiralling unemployment and deeply entrenched inequality.
One of the experts behind this thinking is Professor Stephen Devereux...