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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BIEN Congresses
The 24th BIEN CONGRESS in Maricá & Niterói – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 27-29 August 2025
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BIEN2024 was August 29–31 (Pictures and more coming soon)
Recent News, Opinion, and Research
Income Movement: Quarterly State of the Movement Video
This virtual event on 22 March 2022, organized by Income Movement, provided an opportunity to hear from legislators, experts, and thought leaders on the current state of the basic income movement in the United States. Guest speakers discussed national, state,...
Social Europe Blog and UBI
Social Europe is an influential blog that some years ago published some articles both for and against Basic Income that Philippe Van Parijs edited into a book. The blog has now returned to the subject with a new post, A European basic income? The ethos is now...
The BIEN hubs project: Appointment of a Co-ordinator
Since 1986, BIEN has facilitated the global Basic Income debate. It is now looking forward to an exciting new three-year BIEN Hubs project, funded by the Mustardseed Trust, that will further expand and globalise its activity, and enable it to meet the many demands now...
Workshop on the Catalan Universal Basic Income Pilot Project
Dear all, we are pleased to invite you to the Workshop on the Catalan Universal Basic Income Pilot Project. It will take place on Thursday 31 March and Friday 1 April and will be accessible online...
Digital conference: Universal Basic Income and Debt-free Sovereign Money
The University of Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies, together with the Berlin based think tank polisphere are holding a digital conference on Wednesday 23.03.2022 chaired by Geoff Crocker, author of 'Basic Income and Sovereign Money‘ and editor of the web...
A Systemic Ecosystem for Socio-Economic Development (SESED)
Universal Basic Income (UBI) takes care of sustenance needs, and SESED (Figure 1), can complement UBI to achieve poverty alleviation. This will be through a small business enterprise, whose success is facilitated by SESED given the peace of mind that UBI provides....
Basic Income Takes a Hit in Korea
On March 9, South Korea took to the polls for the 2022 Presidential Election. Former governor of Gyeonggi province, Lee Jae-myung of the ruling Democratic Party lost by a narrow margin of less than 0.7% to Yoon Suk-yeol from the People Power Party. This election...
New publication! Basic Income and the Social Investment State
New publication! Basic Income and the Social Investment State: Towards Mutual Reinforcement? by Luke Martinelli and Yannick Vanderborght in European Journal of Social Securityhttps://doi.org/10.1177/13882627221085019 Is a social investment strategy compatible with the...
Deadline for BIEN 2022 paper proposals extended to April 1
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.BIEN 2022 hybrid. Call for papers: Abstracts...
UBI project in Democratic Republic of Congo expanded
Eight, a NGO that provides Unconditional monthly cash transfers to people in extreme poverty for two years, in collaboration with IPIS, the Belgian Development Cooperation, Fairphone, Umicore and Proximus, announces the expansion of its basic income pilot...
Common pamphlet from Nordic BIENs: Basic Income – Cornerstone of the Nordic Welfare State
The Nordic Basic Income Earth Networks have published a common pamphlet featuring nine articles. With this pamphlet, they urge the Nordic governments to introduce universal basic income and show a roadmap for a more just and sustainable world, as...
Two Podcasts on UBI from SocialProtection.org
The first episode of the year in the Social Protection Podcast brings a radical proposal for extending social protections: the Universal Basic Income, or UBI. Fundamentally, a universal basic income is a benefit provided in cash without conditions to everyone. It is a...