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The BBC World Affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge explores factors that keep a billion people trapped in poverty. In this program he investigates the status of women in Nicaragua and looks at an unorthodox scheme for distributing public assistance in a Namibian village. | ||||||
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An unusual pilot program is underway in a rural village in Namibia: each resident is given the equivalent of ten dollars a month to spend as they wish. There are no qualifying factors, and no strings attached. The BBC’s Mike Wooldridge examines the ramifications of Namibia’s Basic Income Grant. Listen to the last program in our A Dollar a Day series about Nepal’s attempts to reduce poverty. Listen to this A Dollar a Day program from our 2008 archives on fighting poverty in Kenya and Peru. Listen to this A Dollar a Day program from our 2008 archives on the situation in India and Ghana. |
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