The continuing politics of basic income in South Africa
| dc.contributor.author | Seekings, Jeremy | |
| dc.contributor.author | Matisonn, Heidi | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-25T09:42:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-04-25T09:42:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-04-25T08:32:44Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | South African government ministers routinely profess their commitment to mitigating poverty and inequality, including - if necessary - through broad and expensive welfare programs. The South African state redistributes approximately 3.5% of GDP through non-contributory social assistance programs, paying out more than 13 million grants every month, in a country whose total population is less than 50 million. No other country in the global South spends as much on social assistance or reaches as high a proportion of the population. ?Yet many poor people remain beyond the reach of the public welfare system, and many of these poor people vote for the governing party, the African National Congress (ANC). This would seem to be fertile ground for the introduction of a basic income grant (BIG) reaching all citizens (and voters). Indeed, in 2002, a government-appointed committee of enquiry recommended (albeit tentatively) the introduction of a BIG. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Seekings, J., & Matisonn, H. (2010). <i>The continuing politics of basic income in South Africa</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19173 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Seekings, Jeremy, and Heidi Matisonn <i>The continuing politics of basic income in South Africa.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19173 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Seekings, J., & Matisonn, H. (2010). The continuing politics of basic income in South Africa. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Seekings, Jeremy AU - Matisonn, Heidi AB - South African government ministers routinely profess their commitment to mitigating poverty and inequality, including - if necessary - through broad and expensive welfare programs. The South African state redistributes approximately 3.5% of GDP through non-contributory social assistance programs, paying out more than 13 million grants every month, in a country whose total population is less than 50 million. No other country in the global South spends as much on social assistance or reaches as high a proportion of the population. ?Yet many poor people remain beyond the reach of the public welfare system, and many of these poor people vote for the governing party, the African National Congress (ANC). This would seem to be fertile ground for the introduction of a basic income grant (BIG) reaching all citizens (and voters). Indeed, in 2002, a government-appointed committee of enquiry recommended (albeit tentatively) the introduction of a BIG. DA - 2010 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2010 T1 - The continuing politics of basic income in South Africa TI - The continuing politics of basic income in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19173 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19173 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Seekings J, Matisonn H. The continuing politics of basic income in South Africa. 2010 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19173 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.title | The continuing politics of basic income in South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |