Women's Day: UNDP bats for temporary basic income to combat COVID-19
India, March 5 -- Monthly investment of 0.07-0.31% of a developing countries' GDP can provide financial security to 613 million working-age women living in poverty
A temporary basic income (TBI) for poor women in developing countries can help millions of them cope with the effects of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, according to United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) findings released on March 4, 2021 ahead of International Working Women's Day.
The large-scale TBI scheme proposed by UNDP in a policy brief showed that a monthly investment of 0.07-0.31 per cent of a developing countries' gross domestic product (GDP) could provide reliable financial security to 613 million working-aged women living in poverty.
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