Université de Fribourg

Contested claims to social welfare : Basic income grants in Namibia

Klocke-Daffa, Sabine

In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2017, vol. 2, no. 2, p. Article: 2.3

In many parts of the world, income transfers to underprivileged groups have long been part of social welfare programmes. However, the conditionality of such grants has recently been challenged on a global scale, arguing that income grants should serve as a mechanism to redistribute national resources rather than filling the social gap, and be conceded to all members of the population. The only...