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PRIORITIES FOR THE SECOND WORLD SUMMIT FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 2025
As more countries are facing a secular stagnation and as it is becoming clear that it is unrealistic to hope to increase total economic output (measured as the gross domestic product GDP)) without further worsening the environmental crisis, a new question emerges: how...
Designing a Basic Income Pilot for Australia – 2024 ABI Fellows Workshop
Photo by Amber Weir via Unsplash Workshop Program: Designing a Basic Income Pilot for Australia – Ethics, Implementation & Evaluation Challenges Location: Online (Zoom)Date: Friday, December 6Time: 9:00 AM - 1:15 PM Overview: Pilots, trials, and...
Basic Income for the Arts in Ireland – What have we learned after 26 months?
When? Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 6:30-8:00 PM UK GMT Where? Online (Zoom) UBI Lab Arts, UBI Lab Leeds, UBI Lab Network and Basic Income Ireland present: Please join us for the fifth in our special series of discussions dedicated to reflecting on what we can learn...
“Recovery Dividends”: An Emergency Basic Income for Palestine
The Palestinian Economic Policy Institute in Ramallah had asked me to draw up a proposal for an Emergency Basic Income, which I presented in Ramallah earlier this year. To access that paper, click here.
Rethinking Universal Basic Income: Economic Productivity, Quality of Life and the Sustainable Development Goals
Recent concern about the uncertain impacts of artificial intelligence has fueled renewed discussion of universal basic income (UBI). As in the past, much of the conversation depicts UBI as a policy expedient aimed at relieving the adverse effects (presumably...
FRIBIS Anual Conference Report
The FRIBIS Annual Conference 2024 (7 – 9 October), held at the University of Freiburg, was titled "Towards the development of a full UBI? Perspectives on partial approaches in different welfare systems." The conference brought together over 40 speakers and 79...
Zoom: OpenResearch Unconditional Cash Study: Research Insights and Early Learnings
This two-hour conversation with Dr. Karina Dotson and Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes will see the researchers behind the pioneering OpenResearch Unconditional Basic Income Pilot to present their initial results. This pilot was one of the largest UBI pilots to date and has...
UBI4ALL’s 7th Basic Income Raffle: November 24
UBI4ALL, a pioneering organization committed to advancing the concept of Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) worldwide, is excited to announce its 7th Basic Income raffle. On November 24, 2024, UBI4ALL will award a life-changing €9,600 per year (€800 per month) to a...
Special series of publications on UBI in Neoliberal Times
UBI in the Heartlands of Neoliberalism published by openDemocracy Part 1 | Getting on with it UBI in the US ‘not just an idea’ – it’s achievableShafeka Hasash, Economic Security Project 'Hope goes a long way': BI as a lifeline for ex-prisonersKevin Scott, Community...
Can Malaysia Implement Universal Basic Income?
Dr. Sarath Davala, Lee Seng Kiat, Prof. Geoffrey and John Michael, Asia-Pacific Hub Manager for BIEN, have joined a Radio show to discuss 'Can Malaysia implement a UBI' in the show called Beyond the Ballot Box by Journalist Dashran Yohan. To listen to the...
