Research posts
Here you will find notices about research and research results relating to Basic Income
Bedia François, “Quantitative Impacts Of Basic Income Grant On Income Distribution In Cote D’Ivoire: Time To Change Our Societies”
“This paper tries to engage the economic and political debate around the proposition of a basic income grant (BIG) in Côte d’Ivoire. We simulate the economic wide and distributional impact of a universal basic income grant (BIG) in Cote d’Ivoire.”
Johannes Haushofer and Jeremy Shapiro, “The Short-Term Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers to the Poor: Experimental Evidence from Kenya”
Johannes Haushofer and Jeremy Shapiro have published “The Short-Term Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers to the Poor: Experimental Evidence from Kenya” in The Quarterly Journal of Economics. The article analyzes GiveDirectly’s unconditional cash transfers to poor households in western Kenya, and examines their impact on consumption and psychological wellbeing.
BOOK: Vijay Joshi, India’s Long Road: The Search to Prosperity
Vijay Joshi, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, has recently published a new book, India’s Long Road: The Search for Prosperity, in which he argues in favor of a basic income for all citizens of India.
“The Concept of Basic Income: Global Experience and Implementation Possibilities in Lithuania”
Lithuania has received little attention in the global movement for universal basic income. In June of this year, however, Algimantas Laurinavičius and Antanas Laurinavičius, members of Faculty of Economics at Lithuania’s Vilnius University, published a brief investigation into the possibility of a UBI in Lithuania.
BOOK: Dick Pels, A Heart for Europe
In his latest book, A Heart for Europe, the sociologist and freelance writer Dick Pels makes a case for basic income as part of a new European project; the book is available for free download.
S. Gobetti, L. Santini: The Crisis of Labour, Widespread Precarity and Basic Income
Article by Luca Santini and Sandro Gobetti (BIN Italia), published on Cadmus journal Vol. 2 Issue 6 may 2016. Abstract A feeling of uncertainty about the future as well as the perception that the past classical securities are gone are widely spread among people....
Rasmus Schjoedt, “India’s Basic Income Experiment”
Rasmus Schjoedt is the Social Policy Specialist at Development Pathways, a UK-based consultancy firm that "brings together a group of social policy experts with extensive international experience of working on social protection, social development, gender, financial...
Karl Widerquist and Grant S. McCall, “Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy”
This book only mentions Basic Income once, but it's on the last page of the book, and in a way, the entire book leads up to an argument for Basic Income. The name, Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy, refers to the belief that everyone is better off in a...
AUSTRALIA: Productivity Commission report tentatively broaches BI
The Productivity Commission of the Australian Government has released a research paper entitled 'Digital Disruption: What do governments need to do?' on 15th June 2016. The paper looks at the role of government in the face of 'potentially disruptive technological...
University of Tampere lectures on UBI available online
Finland's University of Tampere offered a course on basic income, titled "Universal Basic Income: New Avenues in Social Welfare Policy," which ran from February through May of this year. (This is the second time that a course on basic income has been taught at the...
New Book on Basic Income in Australia and New Zealand
“This book is the first collective volume of its kind to ask whether a basic income offers a viable solution to the income support systems in Australia and New Zealand.”
Karl Widerquist, “The Bottom Line in a Basic Income Experiment”
This article, originally published in 2007, has been re-released on the author's website because of the increasing likelihood that basic income implementation trials are on their way. Abstract: A basic income (BI) experiment (or a pilot project or an implementation...
