OPINION

How a universal basic income helped Kenyans

Oped, Tavneet Suri and Nidhi Parekh, Published on 02/08/2022

» When the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting recession pushed 120 million people worldwide into extreme poverty in 2020, many countries relied on social-protection measures to cushion the blow. By May 2021, a total of 3,333 such schemes had been planned or implemented in 222 countries or territories.