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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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Universal Basic Income is only an idea in the making, but within its first year of conceptualisation, it seems like the first two terms of the acronym have already been reduced to notional ideas.
-KINJAL SAMPAT & VIVEK MISHRA

A chapter in this year’s Economic Survey titled ‘Universal Basic Income: A Conversation With and Within the Mahatma’ in the Economic Survey of 2016-17, engages at length with the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI). Although UBI has not been realised in this year’s budget, its place in the Survey reflects the seriousness of the present government in pursuing […]

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Unconditional basic income by the texpayer’s money — Turnoi — 2017-02-04 Re: Unconditional basic income by the texpayer’s money — Curious — 2017-02-04
Re: Unconditional basic income by the texpayer’s money by: Turnoi Oh, yes! I experienced them when I was much less well-off than I am today. They had always pissed me off! A lot of "charitable" people are hypocrite Re: Unconditional basic income by the texpayer’s money by: Turnoi Yes, looks to me like that as well. However, the shoe has yet to be made fitting different feet. Different standard of living levels in different countries […]

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after brexit and the election of donald trump, all eyes are on france for another populist upset, with marine le pen rising in the polls ahead of the country’s upcoming presidential election. the growing popularity of the leader of the far-right, anti-immigration, anti-eu national front party is in keeping with the rightward drift of politics recently. equally noteworthy is the existential crisis that confronts the out-of-favor left. in france, as elsewhere, the response has been to shift to the other extreme end of the political spectrum. france’s socialists have lurched as far left as they can go, naming benoît […]

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Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Finance Minister …a universal basic income"

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On Saturday the Shadow Chancellor launched the first of Labour’s regional economic conferences in Liverpool Labour has set up a “working group” to investigate the radical idea of a basic income and will report back on its conclusions before the next general election, John McDonnell has said.

In an exclusive interview with The Independent the Shadow Chancellor appeared to signal his desire to bring basic income in the party’s manifesto. The concept involves overhauling the welfare state and ditching means-tested benefits in favour of unconditional flat-rate payments to all citizens.

During the summer of 2016 Mr McDonnell, who has been the […]

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Finland and Canada started this year with a great purpose – to find out how poor people will react if they receive a basic income. Would they overcome their condition and begin to contribute to the society or will remain in the poverty, encouraged by a guaranteed sum of money? This experiment is very important if we consider the transformation of the global workforce, which is more and more affected by automatization. Money with no strings attached or, in other words, money for nothing may have the power to change the people who receive them or could worsen the […]

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Universal Basic Income is only an idea in the making, but within its first year of conceptualisation, it seems like the first two terms of the acronym have already been reduced to notional ideas.

Problems have cropped up in conceptualising Universal Basic Income. Credit: Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri/Files A chapter in this year’s Economic Survey titled ‘Universal Basic Income: A Conversation With and Within the Mahatma’ in the Economic Survey of 2016-17, engages at length with the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI). Although UBI has not been realised in this year’s budget, its place in the Survey […]

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Union Budget, 2017 Union Budget, demonetisation, Narendra Modi government, Modi, Budget week, Economic Survey, MGNREGA, Universal Basic Income, poverty, India news, Indian Express Having got to the second half of its tenure, the government is beginning to flex its reformist muscles. Two more radical proposals have been delivered during Budget week. First was the idea floated in the Budget of reforming the funding of political parties. Like demonetisation, it makes cash an outlaw but cheques and bonds respectable. That will be subject to much debate but it is about politicians, not people.

The Economic Survey has proposed a radical step, […]

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