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Claudia and Dirk Haarmann, “Relief through cash: Impact assessment of the emergency cash grant in Namibia”
Sep 7, 2015 | Research
This report examines the impact of an emergency cash grant distributed by churches in Namibia modeled on the Basic Income Grant Pilot in Otjivero. During the 2012/2013 summer months, the precipitation deficits varied between 20% and 90%, which resulted in one of the...
American Political Science Association, “Democratic Imperatives: Innovations in Rights, Participation, and Economic Citizenship”
Sep 5, 2015 | Research
This task force report on democracy, economic security, and social justice in a volatile world considers three promising democratic innovations, among which is the formulation of economic citizenship. Among the suggested routes to achieve economic citizenship was the...
Sascha Liebermann, “In the Spirit of Democracy: Unconditional Basic Income”
Aug 18, 2015 | Research
Sascha Liebermann (2015) Aus dem Geist der Demokratie: Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen [In the Spirit of Democracy: Unconditional Basic Income], Publisher: Humanities Online, Frankfurt, Germany 2015 This book addresses a wide audience of people interested in basic...
Robert Skidelsky, “Minimum Wage or Living Income?”
Aug 6, 2015 | Research
Skidelsky, a distinguished academic in history and economics, writes on the Conservative government in the UK and their budget that was released in early July. They plan to cut £12 billion in welfare, with £9 billion of that coming from cuts in tax credits, which are...
Review of “Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution,” by James Ferguson
Jul 29, 2015 | Opinion, Research
Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution, by James Ferguson (Duke University Press Books, 2015). James Ferguson’s latest book focuses on the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in the form of grants to low income and...
Roderick Benns, “ Ottawa man says a basic income guarantee would have changed the trajectory of his life”
Jul 18, 2015 | Research
AUTHOR’S ABSTRACT: From the time he was a toddler, John Dunn was bounced around 13 times from one Ontario foster home to the next until he turned 18. He was originally taken into care due to complications from his mother’s severe — and often suicidal — bi-polar...
Karl Widerquist, “The Piketty Observation Against the Institutional Background: How natural is this natural tendency and what can we do about it?”
Jul 9, 2015 | Research
Abstract: Thomas Piketty’s recent book, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," provides a great deal of empirical support for the observation that the rate of return on capital (r) is greater than the growth rate of the economy as a whole (g); i.e. "r > g". From...
Borja Barragué, César Martínez Sánchez, “The Basic Income on the agenda of PODEMOS: A matter of political or financial viability?”
Jul 1, 2015 | Research
Abstract: The paper addresses the recent emergence of two phenomena on the political agenda of many OECD countries: political parties born out of Social Movements and the Universal Basic Income (UBI). Regarding the former, one of the most important novelties in the...
Miguel Horta, “Negative Income Tax in Portugal [Negative Income Tax em Portugal]”
Jun 3, 2015 | Research
Abtract:"The NIT - Negative Income Tax - is a wealth redistribution system. It works through a tax which reaches for a part of the richest population wealth and distributes it through all others, in an automatic and unconditional fashion. This means no...
Jurgen De Wispelaere & Leticia Morales, “The Stability of Basic Income: A Constitutional Solution for a Political Problem?”
May 20, 2015 | Research
Wispelaere and Morales argue that a basic income program, if implemented, would be particularly vulnerable to policy instability. They then explore whether a constitutional solution exists to protect such a basic income policy.
Jennifer M. Mays, “Countering disablism: an alternative universal income support system based on egalitarianism”
May 18, 2015 | Research
Abstract:"The long-term vision of economic security and social participation for people with a disability held by disability activists and policy-makers has not been realized on a global scale. This is despite the implementation of various poverty alleviation...
Geoff Crocker, “The Economic Necessity of Basic Income”
May 16, 2015 | Research
Geoff Crocker proposes 'a basic income funded by QE in proportion to output GDP and not counted as deficit' as 'the only ultimate solution'. This prescription is based on his diagnosis that 'the delinkage of productivity and real wages is the underlying cause of the...
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