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It should cause South Africans concern that the government is receiving loans from the World Bank to support its economic recovery plan.

The payment of the R350 Covid-19 grant was extended to March next year and will cost the country about R45 billion a year. Van den Heever’s report suggests that the grant should be increased over time.

The ANC and the ANC government should be ashamed that this happened under their watch.

The CDE has released a new report which estimates that over 60 percent of South Africans live below the poverty line.

The Centre for Development and Enterprise says the country cannot afford a basic income grant.

Describing the scheme as unaffordable, the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) told reporters at the launch of a report on poverty and the basic income grant that if implemented it would further compound the low economic growth.

The Money Show’s Bruce Whitfield interviews Anne Bernstein of the Centre for Development and Enterprise.

Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) executive director Ann Bernstein explained on Tuesday that South Africa cannot afford a Basic Income Grant (BIG), as it would be a “reckless, losing gamble with history”. She was speaking during the release of the CDE’s ‘Poverty and a Basic Income Grant: Six questions about a BIG’ report, which highlighted that, in contrast to what proponents of a BIG claim, it would actually slow economic growth.

Bangladesh has become a lower middle-income country from a ‘bottom less basket’ in its journey in the last 50 years where the main hero were the labourers, economists said today.