South African Debates on the Basic Income Grant: Wage Labour and the Post-Apartheid Social Policy.
The 2002 report of the Taylor Committee of Inquiry into a Comprehensive Social Security System for South Africa recommended widespread social policy changes. A key suggestion in the report was the phased introduction of a Basic Income Grant (BIG) on a universal, non-means tested basis. In this way,...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 561 - 576 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2007
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