The welfare budget and the economy

Daily Vox contributor AALIA CASSIM, economist at the Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town, joined Power FM’s Eusebius McKaiser to discuss the economy and the role of social welfare in society. 

“Forty percent of the poorest households get 76% of the welfare spending; this shows how well targeted it is,” she says. Listen to her take on the welfare budget and inequality in South Africa below.