Category: Basic Income

By Yedidya Lau (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Recently, the government of Israel published a book containing its work plans for 2017-2018. This book accompanies each budget in order to clarify the main objectives that the government plans to carry out through the budget and place measurable outcomes. The new book contains for the first time, besides the plans of the different ministries, a work plan for the National Insurance Institute (NII). One of the objectives that the NII states is to promote reforms in the NII. In this context, the NII is aiming to examine the practicability of maintaining […]

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There’s been loose talk among policy makers about a guaranteed basic income for several years, and a handful of prominent people—Tesla founder Elon Musk; venture capitalist Marc Andreessen; Clinton administration labor secretary Robert Reich—have begun to advocate it as they contemplate a future in which artificial intelligence destroys tens of millions of middle-class jobs. In political terms, however, the idea that the government should send everyone a monthly stipend is far from ripe.

“Basic Income,” by Belgian academics Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght, represents an attempt to lay out a systematic case for what would be a radical departure […]

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Jaitley said that while he was in favour of a cash payment to the poor in lieu of existing subsidies, he didn’t want a situation where UBI was given in addition to the existing subsidies. (Reuters) Jammu and Kashmir may become India’s first state to implement the universal basic income (UBI) plan that chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian outlined in this year’s Economic Survey. Confirming this, J&K finance minister Haseeb Drabu said, “We had spoken about it in our budget and I have made a presentation on UBI for the state’s poor people to Union finance minister Arun Jaitley […]

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Despite being lambasted as a utopian fiction, the idea of a universal basic income (UBI) is gaining traction in Asia with new trials set to start and the concept garnering interest among lawmakers in the region.

UBI, or the notion of regularly distributing free money to all citizens as a form of social security, has been on the fringes of economic policy debate since the late eighteenth century, but gained credence in the 1960s after U.S. President Richard Nixon advocated the idea as part of his Family Assistance Plan.

The idea is now gathering global popularity after a landmark trial in […]

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An Auckland academic is advocating the idea of a universal basic income even though it has been dismissed as unaffordable and "barking mad" by some.

The idea is the state provides a basic income to people with no strings attached.

Auckland Business School economist Dr Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy says policymakers should give serious thought to how it could work in New Zealand.In a trial in Finland 2000 people each get 560 euros ($860) a month and the payment continues even if they get a job. The hope is the financial security allows people to make life plans.The idea has been shot down […]

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The universal basic income has become a subject of increasing fascination across the entire ideological spectrum in recent years. Capable of much more than just a simple “employment fix”, basic income could help to create no less than a shared political vision for a future society.

There are a number of experiments in basic income about to be implemented this year around the world. The experiments offer basic income as a solution to automation, lack of disposable income, benefit traps or a bloated bureaucracy. In other words, the goal is to “fix” various parts of the existing relationships between the […]

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An Auckland economist is advocating a universal basic income as an idea, saying others don’t think it is silly.

An Auckland academic is advocating the idea of a universal basic income even though it has been dismissed as unaffordable and "barking mad" by some.

The idea is the state provides a basic income to people with no strings attached.Auckland Business School economist Dr Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy says policymakers should give serious thought to how it could work in New Zealand.In a trial in Finland 2000 people each get 560 euros ($860) a month and the payment continues even if they get […]

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