The 22nd annual BIEN Congress, taking place in South Korea this year from August 23rd to 26th, is coming soon.
Conducted synchronously offline and online, the event will be held at Ewha Womans University ECC, Seoul, South Korea.
You can check the finalized version of the program here.
The link for the registration is here.
Guy Standing, BIEN Co-Founder, has a new article published in Prospect, August/September 2023 issue.
“The royal family has made millions from the exploitation of the seabed—a resource that belongs to us all. Is it time for people and planet to be put ahead of profit?”
To read the article click here.
The podcast was part of a series, The Morality of Everyday Things
“After having previously said over and over that we’ll “do UBI properly at some point”, the time has come, and what better way to approach this question than including the man who quite literally wrote the book on it, Guy Standing. A professor in Economics at SOAS, who spent many years at the International Labour Organization and founded the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), this episode is really more about Guy than us – with us questioning him on what drives the moral imperative for everyone receiving basic income.”
To listen to the podcast, click here.
The Denver Basic Income Project’s Midterm Qualitative Research Report has been completed by its research team with the Center for Housing and Homelessness Research and the preliminary findings show that providing unconditional cash payments to the unhoused community can make huge impacts in helping them achieve financial stability.
Please join DBIP for a virtual press conference on Wednesday, July 19 at 9 am MT where they will share the key takeaways from the report and allow time for questions. You can register for the press conference here.
Since the early 2000s, the emergence and continuous growth of cash transfer programs define the main stage in the discussion surrounding the future of social protection. While established first in Latin America, programs focussing on direct cash transfers have spread throughout various countries and contexts. Parallelly, a debate developed on the advantages and disadvantages of the conditionality and unconditionality of cash transfers as social policy mechanisms.
The municipality of Maricá established the Renda Básica de Cidadania in 2013 and since then, expanded it majorly. Today, it is the largest basic income program in Latin America. It is based on the circulation of a digital community currency, called mumbuca, which creates a broad network of local exchange within the municipality. Meanwhile, the Moeda Social Arariboia in Niterói was established in its current form in 2022. While the Niterói policy carries some similarities with the policy in Maricá, it also differs in various points.
The 24th BIEN CONGRESS in Maricá & Niterói – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 27-29 August 2025
Linkedin, Instagram, X – biencongress25 (at) gmail [dot] com
BIEN2024 was August 29–31 (Pictures and more coming soon)