Back to basics

Back to basics

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Government report misses key points on income one for all: A universal system would generate community and multiplier effects. THE government’s Chief Economic Adviser deserves congratulations on including a chapter in the Economic Survey of 2016-2017 on basic income, which would involve giving every Indian a modest amount each month as a citizenship right. This policy is gaining support globally, and — as the report shows — is affordable. Sadly, the writers appear not to have studied the results of basic income pilots that SEWA, with myself as a collaborator, conducted between 2010 and 2013. They […]

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