Introduction
Today’s column provides a general introduction to my re-visit of the Buxton Proposal and the intended structure of my presentation. My two earlier columns [December 3 and 10] offer a prefatory indication on my studied efforts to revise the Buxton Proposal – a Universal Basic Income, UBI, social protection mechanism I have recommended as essential for Guyana’s eradication of its stubbornly persistent poverty – now juxtaposed to its recent windfall oil discoveries. The two columns had engaged respectively, the World Bank and the IMF’s recent publications on UBIs.
Six lessons have been drawn from that exercise and are listed […]
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