Case study P: Political economy of the basic income grant in South Africa
- In recent years, the basic income grant (BIG) discourse has gained attention worldwide as a potential policy option in social protection as testified by recent public debates, ongoing pilot projects, campaigning efforts,1 policy measures during Covid-19 and the surge in academic research. A BIG refers to regular cash transfers paid to all members of society irrespective of their socio-economic status, their capacity or willingness to participate in the labour market or having to meet pre-determined conditions (Offe 2008; Van Parijs 1995, 2003; Wright 2004, 2006). Despite the recent hype around BIG, Iran is the only country worldwide with a scaled-up BIG (Tabatabai 2011, 2012). Other programmes have never gone beyond pilot programmes. This raises the question why this is the case.
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| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
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| Language: | English |
| Author: | Brian Mathebula |
| Parent Title (English): | Schüring, Loewe (Eds.): Handbook on Social Protection Systems |
| Number of pages: | 7 |
| First Page: | 541 |
| Last Page: | 547 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-83910-911-9 |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-58122 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839109119.00069 |
| Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Place of publication: | Cheltenham, UK |
| Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/08/10 |
| Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Sozialpolitik und Soziale Sicherung |
| Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 36 Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste / 361 Soziale Probleme und Sozialhilfe im Allgemeinen |
| Entry in this database: | 2021/08/20 |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
