In a world riddled with complexity, the simplicity of universal basic income grants (BIGs) is alluring: just give everyone cash. Excerpts of such radical concepts have been put in practice across the globe, with the launch of a pilot in Kenya , results from India , a coalition in Namibia , an experiment in Finland , a pilot in the Unites States , a referendum in Switzerland , and the redistribution of dividends from natural resources in Alaska and elsewhere .
In high-income countries (HICs), the main rationale for BIGs is related to automation , artificial intelligence , stagnant real […]
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