Basic income: Global idea and local dilemmas

Basic income: Global idea and local dilemmas

Universal Basic Income (UBI) in its pure form implies six essential ingredients. It is universal, individual, cash, monthly, unconditional, and lastly it is a right that cannot be withdrawn. As a full-fledge social policy, it has not been implemented anywhere in the world yet. In the last decade, suddenly there has been an explosion of interest in the idea – in the universities, mainstream media, and policy corridors. Political Philosopher Karl Widerquist of Georgetown University calls the current wave of enthusiasm and activism the third wave . The first wave was between 1910 and 1940 and the second one […]

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