Basic Income is now a dominant discussion in India’s 2019 general election

Basic Income is now a dominant discussion in India's 2019 general election

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With the historic announcement by India’s opposition party of an intention to implement basic income for the poor (not UBI), just two years after India’s 2016-2017 Economic Survey called UBI "the shortest path to eliminating poverty," and seven years after the successful 2011-2012 UBI experiment in Madhya Pradesh , for perhaps the first time in history a country’s two leading parties appear to now agree on the idea of just giving cash to people without strings and are instead fighting over who thought of […]

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