BNB Policy Brief: A Decent Standard of Living: A Trade-Off for the Poor Social Policy Initiative Inequality Food Insecurity Income Inequality The Basic Needs Basket is a monthly survey of the cost of essential food and non- food items that comprise the items that a low income family in both rural and urban areas across the nine provinces of South Africa consider to be basic necessities. The BNB project seeks to generate information regarding the impact of price inflation on the spending power on goods and services that are frequently consumed by low income households 2016 text PDF https://chr-atom.uwc.ac.za/basic-needs-basket-policy-brief ZA UWC SPI 2025-0002-3-9 eng Republic of South Africa