The government can choose to pay a certain amount, which can be calculated as the poverty line threshold multiplied by the number of people in a household and then scaled up for a month. But in a country like India, the task is different in scope because the number of people living below the poverty line is quite high and can range from 20-50 per cent depending on how the concept is defined.
Universal basic income is a fairly straightforward concept where every individual or family, as the case may be, receives a transfer of income from the government […]
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