Junita Pardesi and Kristal Duncan-Williams said that the existing short-term work opportunities like those created by the Social Employment Fund (SEF) and the Presidential Employment Stimulus (PES), in general, are putting money directly in people’s pockets enabling them to spend in local economies.
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Transport is the biggest expense. We live in a country where one in five people have limited access to food. And they can’t afford to look for jobs.
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