A Basic Income is a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement.
BIEN Congresses
BIEN’s 2022 Congress will be held in Brisbane, Australia, from Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th September 2022. This will be a hybrid face to face and online event. The main face-to-face event will take place in Brisbane.
Call for papers: Abstracts (250—300 words) due by Friday 4 February 2022; please click here for more information.
Recent news, opinion, and research
Online Forum on Definition of Basic Income: 11th October
The second open forum of the BIEN Working Group on the Clarification of Basic Income's Definition (CBID) to be held online on 11th OCTOBER 2021 at 8.00 am - 9.30 am UTC. Provisional list of speakers are: Ronale Blashke (video presentation), Ali Multlu Koyluoglu,...
The Monetary Issues of a UBI: First annual FRIBIS conference 12 October
This year, the Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS) will hold its first annual conference on Monday and Tuesday, 11-12 October 2021. It aims to shed light on an emerging topic in the economics of UBI: the monetary issues of a UBI. Monetary aspects are...
UBI-Europe fundraises to send youth to Strasbourg
Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE), an alliance of organisations and individuals across 27 countries, is fundraising to send 20 young basic income advocates aged 16-30 to the European Parliment in Strasbourg October 8-9th, for the European Youth Event (EYE)...
Bristol Festival of Ideas: 6 October conference on Basic Income
On Wednesday 6 October 2021, the Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, and Bristol Ideas are running their second virtual conference, ‘Is it time for UBI?’. The conference is free to attend. Leading thinkers, politicians and policymakers will come...
The long march to Basic Income begins with a single step – The unusual story of Kowiti-A
Villagers gathered to celebrate their basic income in the local church building By: Billy Juma Munda, Evans Ododa, Lena Stark Kowiti-A is a small village in Kisumu County in Kenya. It is twenty-three kilometres away from Kisumu town and has a population of 782 people...
International Basic Income Week capped with live & online Basic Income Marches
Saturday 25 September sees the penultimate day of the 14th International Basic Income Week 'Basic Income: Forward to a Better World' with Basic Income Marches in many cities. Although concentrated in the US and Europe, events will also be held in Jakarta, Indonesia...
Why UBI should go global
New research from World Basic Income finds that more than half of the world’s people live in countries where UBI could reach only $5 to $18 per person per month on average, as a result of global inequality and national income constraints. To support UBI...
Oxford Union votes against introducing UBI
On 29th April 2021 the prestigious Oxford Union Society hosted a panel of students, activists, politicians and scholars to debate the motion ‘This House Would Introduce a Universal Basic Income’. The debate began with the majority (68%) voting in favour of introducing...
South Korea: The report on Youth Basic Income in Gyeonggi Province
Gyeonggi Province, Republic of Korea, has been implementing the Youth Basic Income (YBI) programme since April 1, 2019. The English edition of the report on the project was published in July and can be accessed here. The following is a short introduction by Ikjin Yu,...