South Africa needs better food price controls to shield poor people from COVID-19 fallout
By: Ihsaan Bassier, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Refiloe Joala, University of the Western Cape, and Thando Vilakazi, University of Johannesburg A woman walks past a market stall in Kliptown, Soweto. COVID-19 has wrought havoc on poor households in countries across the world. In South Africa, more and more people are facing hunger resulting from mass job losses and small, poorly implemented supplementary cash grants. On top of this the […]