The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has asked Sri Lanka to introduce a temporary basic income and tie its debt reduction to environmental conservation as part of measures to alleviate economic turmoil, the Financial Times reported.
The UNDP suggested a temporary basic income, in the form of an unconditional cash transfer to working-age Sri Lankans for six to nine months. Similar programmes have been implemented in Kenya and the US state of Alaska.
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