by Yannick Vanderborght | Aug 16, 2013 | Research
In this blog, Malcolm Torry discusses a new book, Money for Everyone: Why we need a Citizen’s Income, which argues for a Universal Basic Income, or as it is termed here, a Citizen’s Income. He discusses the different approaches the book uses in arguing for the policy, concluding that every mainstream political ideology generates arguments for a Citizen’s Income.
Malcolm Torry
Malcolm Torry is honorary Director of the Citizen’s Income Trust, BIEN’s affiliate in the United Kingdom. He has first degrees in mathematics, theology, philosophy, and economics and management, and higher degrees in social policy and in theology. From May 2011 to April 2012 he was an honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics. He is Vicar of Holy Trinity, Greenwich Peninsula.
Torry, Malcolm “There are many convincing arguments in favour of a Citizen’s Income,” British Politics and Policy at LSE, 2013
by Yannick Vanderborght | Aug 15, 2013 | Research
This paper compares BI models and discussion in Finland, Germany and Spain.
Perkio, Johanna, “Basic Income Proposals in Finland, Germany and Spain,” Discussion Paper No. 2, Transform! European network for alternative thinking and political dialogue, 2013, online at: https://transform-network.net/programmes/discussion-papers/news/detail/Programm/basic-income-proposals-in-finland-germany-and-spain.html
It’s also online as a PDF at: https://transform-network.net/uploads/tx_news/Paper_no2_perkioe_EN.pdf
The appendix is online at: https://transform-network.net/uploads/tx_news/Basic_Income_in_Europe.Tabellen.corr_mitangenommenenAenderungen.pdf
by Yannick Vanderborght | Aug 14, 2013 | News
Namibia is experiencing its worst drought in decades and the President has declared a state of emergency. By now nearly 800,000 people are affected and in urgent need of support. At the initiation of Bishop Kameeta, of the Lutheran Churches in Namibia, has organized several groups to focus their main response on paying a cash grant to four communities across the country for a period of six months.
Groups involved include LFW (Lutheran World Federation), LUCSA (Lutheran Communion in Southern Africa), TARA (Theological Institute for Advocacy & Research in Africa), and the Act-Alliance. LUCSA-TARA will implement the cash response to the drought. TARA and the LWF emergency co-ordinator for Southern Africa recently travelled through Namibia to assess the situation on the ground and to plan the cash response.
If you would like to donate to the effort, go to the following link (also providing impressions of the extreme situation many households in Namibia are facing): https://www.lutheranworld.org/content/emergency-drought-angola-and-namibia
More images of the current situations are online: https://www.cdhaarmann.com/Pictures/Drought%20Relief%20Namibia%20July%202013/index.html
. In one of the inteA recently abandoned cattle postrviews we learned that due to a lack of grazing the herders had moved on. However, there is little hope to find grazing anywhere within reach. Location: 50km north of Sesfontein in the Kunene region. Photo: Dirk Haarmann
by Yannick Vanderborght | Aug 11, 2013 | News
Malcolm Torry, head of Britain’s BIEN affiliate, the Citizen’s Income Trust and author of the book, Money for Everyone: Why we need a Citizen’s Income, has two videos on YouTube discussing his book.
The two videos are online at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDpAz_KOcgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_iAehEKjxg
Malcolm Torry
by Yannick Vanderborght | Aug 10, 2013 | News
The Basic Income Project is to build a smart phone application that uses a type of digital currency which gets injections of unconditional basic income for communities and individuals to start using in their initiatives.
https://basicincomeproject.org/
