Tag: basic income

A file photo of a villager showing his mobile phone’s monitor displaying a message confirming the universal basic income transaction, Sh2,250 per month (19.5 euros), in Bondo, Siaya County. What you need to know:

In Kenya, a non-governmental organisation, GiveDirectly, started a UBI project in rural Kenya paying about Sh80 of $.075 daily for at least 12 years since 2017.

Transfers significantly improved well-being on common measures such as hunger, sickness and depression in spite of the pandemic, but with modest effect sizes. This is the third of my articles aimed at resetting our development discourse. In […]

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Mmusi Maimane leads theOne South Africa movement. Picture: Oupa Mokoena/African News Agency (ANA) Johannesburg – The One South Africa movement, led by Mmusi Maimane, along with the non-profit company “RightFulShare” have undertaken a step to launch a basic income grant model which will see disadvantaged individuals receive a R1200 cash payment for 18 months.

Maimane and Karen Jooste, the founder of RightFulShare, announced the project on Monday. Both were members of the DA.

The idea for a basic income grant has been a growing issue in South Africa which has grown louder over the past couple of months as the Covid-19 […]

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Former leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) and Chief Activist of the One South Africa Movement (OSA) Mmusi Maimane, in partnership with former DA Member of Parliament (MP) and founder of Rightful Share: An income movement, Karen Jooste, unveiled their plan to pilot a basic income grant in South Africa.

South Africa currently has multiple grants which cover persons who are traditionally economically excluded, including those with disabilities, children and pensioners. However, as more jobs are lost to digitisation and the country struggles through economic hardships, there are more people left without jobs and no access to assistance to keep […]

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OneSA Movement leader Mmusi Maimane wants all poor and "economically excluded" citizens to receive a basic income grant.

He has piloted an ambitious project that will see 120 people receive R1 200 each month.

Large companies with an annual turnover of more than R50 million will pay 10% of their net after-tax profit into a fund that will disburse the grant. OneSA Movement leader Mmusi Maimane has set out an ambitious roadmap for a basic income grant piloting a project that will see 120 people receive R1 200 each month.The R1 200 grant would be on […]

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Berlin: A petition supported by several basic income groups in Germany, and signed by over 176,000 people, was debated by the Petitions Committee in the Bundestag on Monday 26 October. The petition called for a basic income of €1000 a month to be paid to all Germans to mitigate the effects of the corona crisis. This would be paid for at least six months but ‘should last as long as necessary’.

The petition was initiated by Susanne Wiest from Mensch in Germany , and supported by the OMNIBUS für Direkte Demokratie , Mein Grundeinkommen , and Expedition Grundeinkommen after the […]

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The Basic Income Grant Coalition says the gross cost of a basic income grant would be N$6.85 billion per year, or 9.4% of the current national budget.

AFFORDABLE: The Basic Income Grant (BIG) Coalition says the government can afford a universal BIG. Photo: CONTRIBUTED ELLANIE SMIT

WINDHOEKThe Basic Income Grant (BIG) Coalition says calculations show that despite Namibia’s current economic difficulties, a universal BIG is indeed affordable and will provide a much-needed economic stimulus and an effective anti-poverty measure.The Coalition has welcomed the news that the government is considering implementing a basic income grant, saying they are convinced the state […]

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A few years ago there was a big movement that erupted seemingly out of nowhere. It was called the #MeToo movement and it focused on the sexual abuses of powerful men and their female employees. It took down some huge names like Matt Lauer, Harvey Weinstein, Mario Batali, Louis C.K. and Bill O’Reilly. Those were just the famous men we have heard of. There were countless other cases in corporate America that never made the news. Regular women would tell stories of feeling uncomfortable, touched or attacked by men.

What was it all about?

Women are now comprising a huge percentage […]

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A new book is out by Evelyn Forget called Basic Income for Canadians: From the COVID-19 Emergency to Financial Security for All.

An update to her 2018 book in the wake of the worldwide pandemic, this book is an eminently readable manifesto that will undoubtedly help move the needle from discussing basic income to its eventual adoption.

From the publisher’s site:Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put millions out of work, the federal government […]

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