by Peter Knight | Mar 27, 2023 | News
An almost two hour discussion of the Sri Lankan economic crisis in the broader context of today’s flawed development model moderated by Sonali Wanigabaduge concludes with former World Bank senior director for Development Economics, the chief economist of the Middle East and North Africa, Africa, and South Asia regions and the Human Development Network, Shanta Devarajan, agreeing with BIEN Co-Founder, Guy Standing, that resources from an IMF Loan to Sri Lanka should be used to fund an UBI. The whole discussion is relevant, but If you are short on time, see the concluding comments beginning at 1h35m.
See the discussion by clicking here.
by Peter Knight | Mar 23, 2023 | Events, News
The US BIG conference will be held in Chicago, Illinois, on June 8-9 2023. Watch a short video about the conference by clicking here.
Learn more about the conference and register/purchase tickets by clicking here.
by Peter Knight | Mar 21, 2023 | News
Nació (The Nation), one of the most popular digitals in Catalonia, has published a new article by BIEN Chair, Sarath Davala, in support of the currently unfunded Catalan Pilot UBI project. You can read an English version by clicking here.
by Peter Knight | Mar 11, 2023 | News
Geoff Crocker has reframed his argument for UBI in the context of re-thinking income and money in economic theory at the Cambridge Trust for New Economic Thinking conference on Policies to Tackle the Cost of Living Crisis, March 8, 2023.
To see the slides of this presentation, click here.
To view a video of the presentation look at 0:46 to 1:04 in the video of the whole conference.
by Peter Knight | Mar 10, 2023 | News
Guy Standing, BIEN co-founder and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Catalan UBI pilot, has published an article in support of that pilot.
Read the article in Spanish here and English here.
