A Basic Income is a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement.
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Basic Income Grant in Namibia relaunch
From 2008 to 2009 Namibia hosted a globally significant Basic Income pilot project. The coalition behind the project relaunched today to ask for a Basic Income for Namibia. For details of the launch event click here. Speakers at the event included Uhuru Dempers (Desk...
Philippe Van Parijs is voted number 8 in the Prospect magazine Top Thinkers 2020 poll
Philippe Van Parijs, 'Godfather of the UBI movement' as Prospect magazine has called him, has been voted number 8 in the magazine's poll. Dreams of “incomes for all” trace way back—Thomas Paine proposed one scheme. But even before the government picked up the wage...
David Graeber has died at the age of 59
BIEN joins with many people around the world in mourning the sudden death of David Graeber, Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, at the age of 59. Obituaries 'For David Graeber', by Barb Jacobson 'David Graeber's death: I am shocked - what more...
The Cost of a Full Basic Income for the United Kingdom Would be £67 billion per year (3.4% of GDP)
Originally published by Open Democracy. 14 August 2020, under the title, "Basic income could virtually eliminate poverty in the United Kingdom at a cost of £67 billion per year" Universal Basic Income (UBI) – a policy that would provide a regular, cash income to every...
Basic Income March 2020
In conjunction with International Basic Income Week 2020 taking place on 14-20th September, Income Movement – a US-based organisation campaigning for the passing of basic income legislation – has organised the second annual international Basic Income March on 19th...
Researcher sought to study the Maricá experiment
Details of the unconditional local currency income experiment in Maricá can be found here; with a translation in Portuguese here. The European Commission is advertising for a post-doctoral researcher to study the unconditional local currency experiment in Maricá in...
A new World Bank report, ‘Exploring Universal Basic Income’
The World Bank has published a substantial report titled Exploring Universal Basic Income: A guide to navigating concepts, evidence, and practices Universal basic income (UBI) is emerging as one of the most hotly debated issues in development and social protection...
The Latin American Basic Income Network
It was late October 2019, when different academics and activists from all over Latin America were preparing to meet in the south of Chile to share our ideas and perspectives on UBI for the first time. The idea of forming a regional basic income network had been...
A European Basic Income pilot project would be good for Bulgaria
The EU Commission has said from the 25th September 2020 signatures can be collected from EU residents in connection with a new European Citizens Initiative. If the European UBI family succeeds in gathering 1 000 000 signatures, divided among a minimum of seven...