A Basic Income is a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement.
BIEN Congress 2021
BIEN’s next annual congress will take place from the 18th to the 21st August 2021. This will be a virtual congress, organised from Glasgow. To see the call for papers click here.
Recent news, opinion, and research
Basic income trial shows ‘poignant’ stories
A three-year-long project documenting the impact of a small basic income trial in the United States is entering its final stages before release. The goal of the project was to “explore what people do with extra unconditional cash.”
Council for European Studies conference, June 2021
Call for Papers: Panel on the politics of Universal Basic Income. What role for activism(s)? This Call for Papers (CFP) is interested in empirical studies that look at the social and political processes related to the growing interest in universal basic income (UBI),...
Locally Universal: Universal Basic Income Policies in the Post-Pandemic World-Order
Rampant disparities within the capital/labor share, increased pressure on climatically vulnerable communities and mass international migration due to economic hardship or violence.
Results of BIEN’s 2020 ballots
As no General Assembly could be held this year, as many of the General Assembly functions as possible were conducted by postal ballot. Executive Committee and other elections None of the Executive Committee or other posts due for election had more than one candidate...
McKinsey publishes an article about the Finland experiment
McKinsey, the consultancy company, has published an article about the Finland Basic Income experiment. The final results from Finland’s experiment are nowin, and the findings are intriguing: the basic incomein Finland led to a small increase in...
China: An Undergraduate Academic Seminar Held in CUPL
The news is written by Chen Xixi and modified by Furui cheng The Screenshot of Our WeChat Group In the ‘International Basic Income Week’, we three sophomores in CUPL (China University of Political Science and Law) organized an online feature academic report about...
What kind of Citizen’s Dividend from Goa mining would promote intergenerational justice?
Wealth distribution can liberate from the incentives that poverty produces. You have the chance of posing and giving space to these important questions.
UK: Leeds City Council votes to support a Basic Income pilot project in the city
The City Council has passed a resolution asking for a Basic Income pilot project to take place in the city. The Council's debate can be found here and the papers related to the debate here.
New research on the Kenya pilot project
Innovations for Poverty Action has published a research paper, 'Effects of a Universal Basic Income During the Pandemic'. We examine some effects of Universal Basic Income (UBI) during the COVID-19 pandemic using a large-scale experiment in rural Kenya. Transfers...