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FEPS Young Academics Network: “Beyond Basic Income: Overcoming the Crisis of Social Democracy?”
Aug 19, 2017 | Research
“We conclude that the policy cannot be suggested as a solution to the crises of work and social reproduction, at least not without being complemented by a range of other measures. A suite of reforms could strengthen its impact and ensure it is used to nurture and preserve positive social relations that reflect social democratic ideas.”
Louise Haagh: “Basic Income as a pivoting reform”
Aug 3, 2017 | Research
Louise Haagh Louise Haagh, an associate professor at the University of York and chair of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), argues in the June Nature that the reform is making inroads internationally today. Nature is one of the world's top academic...
Malcolm Torry: “A variety of indicators evaluated for two implementation methods for a Citizen’s Basic Income”
Jul 13, 2017 | Research
Malcolm Torry. Credit to: The Back Road Café In a partnership between the Citizen’s Income Trust and the London School of Economics, Malcolm Torry, Director of the Citizen’s Income Trust and General Manager of BIEN, authors and presents a new study on the...
Alf Hornborg, “How to turn an ocean liner: a proposal for voluntary degrowth by redesigning money for sustainability, justice, and resilience”
In an article published in the Journal of Political Ecology, Professor Alf Hornborg of the human ecology division of Lund University proposes that each country establish a complementary currency for local use only, which would be distributed to all its residents as a...
UK: Institute for Policy Research publishes “Exploring the Distributional and Work Incentive Effects of Plausible Illustrative Basic Income Schemes”
Jun 3, 2017 | Research
“The models we examine in this paper present a number of issues that basic income advocates will have to address as they think about implementation and policy design more closely.”
Intereconomics Forum: “Universal Basic Income: The Promise vs the Practicalities”
May 15, 2017 | Research
Forum in academic journal features five short articles on UBI.
US: Undoing poverty’s negative effect on brain development with cash transfers
Apr 15, 2017 | Research
Kimberly G. Noble, associate professor of neuroscience and education at Columbia University's Teachers College, has published an article in Nature which summarizes her research background and an upcoming experiment into brain development and poverty. Noble asks...
Global Social Policy forum on Basic Income
Apr 13, 2017 | Research
A forum with four short articles on basic income was published in a peer-reviewed journal on public policy and social development.
CANADA: NPO Citizens for Public Justice releases new “Briefing Note” on Guaranteed Livable Income
Apr 11, 2017 | Research
CPJ recommends an incremental approach toward a nationwide minimum income in Canada.
Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán, “Conditionality as Targeting? Participation and Distributional Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers”
Apr 9, 2017 | Research
A worry regarding conditional cash transfers is that the poorest households are excluded, as they are the least likely to be able to meet the conditions.
Matthew Dimick, “Better Than Basic Income? Liberty, Equality, and the Regulation of Working Time”
Apr 8, 2017 | Research
A Professor of Law makes a case for working-time regulation instead of basic income.
Psychologists for Social Change: “Universal Basic Income: A Psychological Impact Assessment”
Apr 3, 2017 | Research
Psychologists for Social Change examine the potential impacts of UBI on agency, security, connection, meaning, and trust in this March 2017 briefing paper.
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