Village women who never went to school when they were children participate in an adult education programme. The idea of a universal basic income (UBI) has been proposed and debated for quite some time in different forms across the world, although it hasn’t yet been implemented. Recently, several economists have joined the bandwagon in proposing UBI for India. UBI involves giving some amount of cash to every citizen of the country. In its pure form, the two fundamental principles of UBI are universality and provision of a basic living income. This is different from various existing conditional/unconditional cash transfers, […]
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