BIG Pilot Project - Assessment Report - BIG Coalition Namibia

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Section 2: Impact Assessment(baseline) to 3.2 (six months) to 3.3 (one year). Over afifth of households indicated that they had improvedthe roof of their homes (mostly with corrugated iron,but also with plastic and canvas) and many indicatedthat they intended to renovate and expand their homeslater.82
Section 3: A national Basic Income GrantSection 3: A national BasicIncome Grant3.1 AffordabilityThe debate around a Basic Income Grant in Namibiaraises important questions about the affordability ofuniversal cash transfers and their long-term economicimpact. This section provides evidence from a microsimulationaccounting exercise that calculates thegross and net costs of the proposed intervention. Thissection also presents emerging global evidence on thelikely economic impacts.The cost of a Basic Income GrantThe first step in estimating the cost of the grant is tomodel the number of individuals eligible to receive thegrant. Since the Basic Income Grant is universal, thisnumber is the entire population. However, the universalState Old Age Pension already covers those above60 years. When a person turns 60 the person will movefrom the Basic Income Grant to the higher Old Age Pension,which would remain as it is. The cost of the universalOld Age Pension is already a public obligationand does not pose any additional cost. The populationestimate associated with Namibia’s National HouseholdIncome and Expenditure Survey (2003/2004) was 1.7million people, and the UNFPA estimates Namibia’spopulation growth rate as 2.6% per year, implying apopulation in 2009 of 2.1 million people.Assuming a grant size of N$ 100 per month, and givenan estimated 150,000 of older people receiving the OldAge Pension, an estimated 1.9 million people would receivethe Basic Income Grant (excluding those receivingthe Old Age Pension—whose grant amount would be83
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