Social grants are given in a developing economy for the welfare of the small, backward and marginal groups. The positive impacts of such social grants are-
1) Social grants in form of food subsidy, LPG subsidy, cash grant help the poor come out of their poverty and help them sustain basic life requirements.
2) With basic requirement of food is fulfilled, a person can think to go out and work and earn money, and hence leads to the development of his/her family. This leads to more employment and reduces the employment rates.
3) Free education grant , especially for poor children enable them to get educated and work to earn money. Hence, unemployment is reduced.
The negative effects of social grants on unemployment -
1) Free food and fuel, can actually increase unemployment in some cases. This is because free food and fuel fulfill the survival requirements of a family.
2) When people get subsidy, they may not use it constructively and waste that money, thus bring the effect of social grant to nil.
3) Such grants inculcate the habit of sitting and eating at home, and does not force a person to work.
<span>They practiced redistribution. This means that they shared goods especially food in order to spread the wealth within their community. It helped make sure that everyone had the economic needs that they needed, and where one person might have one item, another may have a different one that they needed.</span>
The Ghana empire ruled before great empires of Mali and Songhai,
Explanation:
The two empires of the region , along with Ghana were the last great owners of the Saharan Africa before colonialism and had been there for a long time thus.
They were profiting from the trade routes set up in the time of the rule of Mansa Musa
This is the time of the precedence of the Ghana empire in the whole region which then broke up into small pieces and then the great empires of Mali and Songhai sprung up after it.
