In what may be a unique social experiment, three pilot basic income schemes were conducted in India between 2010 and 2013, in which over 6,000 men, women and children received universal, equal and completely unconditional monthly cash payments. At this talk, Guy Standing reports on the main outcomes, looking at the effects on sanitation, nutrition, health, schooling, economic activity, women’s status, specific vulnerable groups, and social attitudes more broadly.
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
The results are based on data generated by a multi-round evaluation and a modified randomized control trial methodology, in which those receiving the basic incomes were compared with others not receiving them. A second parameter for comparison was the presence or absence of a collective body, or “Voice organization”, representing the interests of the vulnerable in the villages studied.
Speaker: Guy Standing, a British economist, is Professor of Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is former Director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organisation.
Discussant: Sarah Cook, Director, UNRISD
Moderator: Blandine Blukacz-Louisfert, Officer-in-charge, UNOG Library
Location: UNOG Library Events Room (B-135)
Palais des Nations, Door 20, Geneva, Switzerland
More information: https://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BD6AB/search/496EBAAB72BE745FC1257C1D003A01D7?OpenDocument
