Economic interventions

South African president extends special COVID-19 grant. Why this is not enough

Hannah Dawson, a Postdoctoral Fellow at SWOP, has recently written about the extension of the COVID-19 grant and the need for a basic...

Op-Ed: Extending Covid grant a step towards income guarantees

Pandemic has exposed the problems with our economic system and reliance on wage work for economic security writes Hannah Dawson, Shaeera...

Crashed conversations: Two webinars with Prof Adam Tooze

Crashed conversations Two webinars with Prof Adam Tooze, author of the 'masterly and monumental' Crashed: how a decade of financial...

SA Lockdown | Calls for a universal basic income

SWOP post-doctoral fellow, Dr Hannah Dawson, was interviewed by eNCA's Jeremy Maggs on the need for a permanent form of economic...

Why South Africa needs to ensure income security beyond the pandemic

Hannah Dawson and Elizaveta Fouksman write on the COVID-19 Special Relief Grant and income security in The Conversation. You can read the...