Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 50, New Delhi, November 28, 2020
by Pulin B Nayak and Mark Lindley * Abstract Pulin (Formerly, Professor of Economics, DSE) praises a lecture by Mark (Professor of Eminence, MGMU) on UBI but says India cannot seriously consider implementing UBI, because certain other government tasks — including the availability of basic health facilities to all, effective implementation of the public distribution system, and better public education — need to be taken care of first. He sees Mark’s notion of using steep Pigouvian taxes to fund a partial UBI as interesting — not least from the point […]
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