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Social grants can lead to greater community involvement. Women volunteers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, meet weekly to sweep and clear rubbish off their streets. Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images

Anti‑poverty programmes can change how people see the state and each other

Katrina Kosec, Johns Hopkins University and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, University of California, Berkeley

Social transfers don’t operate in a vacuum. They can strengthen trust or erode it, build cohesion or fuel resentment.
A South African street vendor awaits customers. The country has some of the highest inequality in the world. Mujahid Safodien/AFP via Getty Images

A basic income grant for South Africa: more money in poor people’s pockets, but at a heavy cost

Hylton Hollander, Stellenbosch University; Daan Steenkamp, Stellenbosch University, and Roy Havemann, Stellenbosch University

An unfunded expansion of the social transfer system could lead to even worse economic outcomes — the medicine should not be worse than the disease.

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