UNRISD United Nations Research Institute for Soc : Basic Income Gaining Momentum

The idea of unconditional basic income seems to be making headway in both government and business circles. In January 2017 Finland launched a 2-year basic income experiment, as announced by the Finnish Ambassador to the UN in Geneva at the 2016 UNRISD seminar on universal basic income, held on the occasion of a Swiss referendum on the topic. Another speaker at the seminar, Guy Standing , is a panellist at Davos, the World Economic Forum’s 2017 Annual Meeting, in a session titled ‘A Basic Income for All: Dream or Delusion?’

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The Finnish Social Insurance Institution, Kela, announced on 2 […]

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