“The simplest approach will prove to be the most effective — the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income,” Martin Luther King noted in the late 1960’s.
Suddenly in the last few months, voices recommending Universal Basic Income (UBI) in India have risen to a crescendo.
The government, in its last phase in an election year, is also looking at populist measures. This non-economic brigade pushing for UBI does not realise that in India, UBI cannot be universal or basic and it certainly cannot be classified as income.UBI is not a […]
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