Exploring Universal Basic Income

Author : Ugo Gentilini,Margaret Grosh,Jamele Rigolini,Ruslan Yemtsov
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781464815119

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Exploring Universal Basic Income by Ugo Gentilini,Margaret Grosh,Jamele Rigolini,Ruslan Yemtsov Pdf

Universal basic income (UBI) is emerging as one of the most hotly debated issues in development and social protection policy. But what are the features of UBI? What is it meant to achieve? How do we know, and what don’t we know, about its performance? What does it take to implement it in practice? Drawing from global evidence, literature, and survey data, this volume provides a framework to elucidate issues and trade-offs in UBI with a view to help inform choices around its appropriateness and feasibility in different contexts. Specifically, the book examines how UBI differs from or complements other social assistance programs in terms of objectives, coverage, incidence, adequacy, incentives, effects on poverty and inequality, financing, political economy, and implementation. It also reviews past and current country experiences, surveys the full range of existing policy proposals, provides original results from micro†“tax benefit simulations, and sets out a range of considerations around the analytics and practice of UBI.

Author : Ugo Gentilini,Margaret Grosh,Jamele Rigolini,Ruslan Yemtsov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464814589

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Exploring Universal Basic Income by Ugo Gentilini,Margaret Grosh,Jamele Rigolini,Ruslan Yemtsov Pdf

Universal Basic Income (UBI) is one of the most hotly-debated ideas in development and social protection. Drawing from global evidence and experiences, this volume provides a compass to help navigate key issues and trade-offs, as well as offering new data and insights to better inform choices around the appropriateness and feasibility of UBI in different contexts. Structured around seven chapters and based on one of the most comprehensive reviews of the literature available, the book provides a framework to understand the interplay between objectives, design, incentives, micro-simulations, financing, political economy, and implementation of UBI as well as of social assistance more generally.

Author : Ugo Gentilini,Ruslan Yemtsov,Jamele Rigolini,Margaret Grosh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Basic income
ISBN : 1787859223

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Exploring Universal Basic Income by Ugo Gentilini,Ruslan Yemtsov,Jamele Rigolini,Margaret Grosh Pdf

Drawing from global evidence, literature, and survey data, this volume provides a framework to elucidate issues and trade-offs in UBI with a view to help inform choices around its appropriateness and feasibility in different contexts.

Author : Richard K. Caputo,Larry Liu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030439040

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Political Activism and Basic Income Guarantee by Richard K. Caputo,Larry Liu Pdf

This edited volume brings together international and national scholars and major activists leading or spearheading basic income guarantee political initiatives in their respective countries. Contributing authors address specific issues about major efforts to influence public policy regarding basic income guarantee, such as: who were the main advocates and thought leaders involved in support of such legislative initiatives; what were the main organizational and framing strategies and tactics used to influence public opinion and elected officials to support the idea of and policies related to basic income guarantee; what were the major obstacles they faced; and what practical and theoretical lessons might be learned from past and contemporary actions to affect social policy change regarding basic income guarantee and related measures to guide the efforts of activists and public intellectuals in the 2020 and 2024 election cycles.

Author : Louise Haagh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509522996

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The Case for Universal Basic Income by Louise Haagh Pdf

Advocated (and attacked) by commentators across the political spectrum, paying every citizen a basic income regardless of their circumstances sounds utopian. However, as our economies are transformed and welfare states feel the strain, it has become a hotly debated issue. In this compelling book, Louise Haagh, one of the world’s leading experts on basic income, argues that Universal Basic Income is essential to freedom, human development and democracy in the twenty-first century. She shows that, far from being a silver bullet that will transform or replace capitalism, or a sticking plaster that will extend it, it is a crucial element in a much broader task of constructing a democratic society that will promote social equality and humanist justice. She uses her unrivalled knowledge of the existing research to unearth key issues in design and implementation in a range of different contexts across the globe, highlighting the potential and pitfalls at a time of crisis in governing and public austerity. This book will be essential reading for anyone who wants to get beyond the hype and properly understand one of the most important issues facing politics, economics and social policy today.

Author : Mark Walker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137471338

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Free Money for All by Mark Walker Pdf

Free Money for All makes the case for a basic income guarantee of $10,000 per adult US citizen. The book shows that a basic income guarantee will increase gross national happiness and gross national freedom, while helping to mitigate some of the worst consequences of rising technological unemployment.

Author : Annie Lowrey
Publisher : Crown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781524758776

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Give People Money by Annie Lowrey Pdf

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Shortlisted for the 2018 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income—a stipend given to every citizen—and why it might be necessary in an age of rising inequality, persistent poverty, and dazzling technology. Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your bank account, with nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy. But it has become one of the most influential and hotly debated policy ideas of our time. Futurists, radicals, libertarians, socialists, union representatives, feminists, conservatives, Bernie supporters, development economists, child-care workers, welfare recipients, and politicians from India to Finland to Canada to Mexico—all are talking about UBI. In this sparkling and provocative book, economics writer Annie Lowrey examines the UBI movement from many angles. She travels to Kenya to see how a UBI is lifting the poorest people on earth out of destitution, India to see how inefficient government programs are failing the poor, South Korea to interrogate UBI’s intellectual pedigree, and Silicon Valley to meet the tech titans financing UBI pilots in expectation of a world with advanced artificial intelligence and little need for human labor. Lowrey explores the potential of such a sweeping policy and the challenges the movement faces, among them contradictory aims, uncomfortable costs, and, most powerfully, the entrenched belief that no one should get something for nothing. In the end, she shows how this arcane policy has the potential to solve some of our most intractable economic problems, while offering a new vision of citizenship and a firmer foundation for our society in this age of turbulence and marvels.

Author : Peter Sloman,Daniel Zamora Vargas,Pedro Ramos Pinto
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030757080

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Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective by Peter Sloman,Daniel Zamora Vargas,Pedro Ramos Pinto Pdf

This new edited collection brings together historians and social scientists to engage with the global history of Universal Basic Income (UBI) and offer historically-rich perspectives on contemporary debates about the future of work. In particular, the book goes beyond a genealogy of a seemingly utopian idea to explore how the meaning and reception of basic income proposals has changed over time. The study of UBI provides a prism through which we can understand how different intellectual traditions, political agents, and policy problems have opened up space for new thinking about work and welfare at critical moments. Contributions range broadly across time and space, from Milton Friedman and the debate over guaranteed income in the post-war United States to the emergence of the European basic income movement in the 1980s and the politics of cash transfers in contemporary South Africa. Taken together, these chapters address comparative questions: why do proposals for a guaranteed minimum income emerge at some times and recede into the background in others? What kinds of problems is basic income designed to solve, and how have policy proposals been shaped by changing attitudes to gender roles and the boundaries of social citizenship? What role have transnational networks played in carrying UBI proposals between the global north and the global south, and how does the politics of basic income vary between these contexts? In short, the book builds on a growing body of scholarship on UBI and lays the groundwork for a much richer understanding of the history of this radical proposal. Chapter 3 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Karl Widerquist
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030038496

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A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens by Karl Widerquist Pdf

At least six different Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments are underway or planned right now in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Kenya. Several more countries are considering conducting experiments. Yet, there seems to be more interest simply in having UBI experiments than in exactly what we want to learn from them. Although experiments can produce a lot of relevant data about UBI, they are crucially limited in their ability to enlighten our understanding of the big questions that bear on the discussion of whether to implement UBI as a national or regional policy. And, past experience shows that results of UBI experiments are particularly vulnerable misunderstanding, sensationalism, and spin. This book examines the difficulties of conducting a UBI experiment and reporting the results in ways that successfully improve public understanding of the probable effects of a national UBI. The book makes recommendations how researchers, reporters, citizens, and policymakers can avoid these problems and get the most out of UBI experiments.

Author : Richard Pereira
Publisher : Springer
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319542683

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Financing Basic Income by Richard Pereira Pdf

This Palgrave Pivot argues that basic income at a decent level is, in fact, affordable. The contributors approach the topic from the perspectives of three different countries—Canada, Switzerland, and Australia—to overcome objections that a universal program to keep all citizens above the poverty line would be too expensive to implement. They assess the complex array of revenue sources that can make universal basic income feasible, from the underestimated value of public program redundancies to new and so far unaccounted publicly owned assets.

Author : Malcolm Torry
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031410017

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The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income by Malcolm Torry Pdf

Author : Elise Klein,Jennifer Mays,Tim Dunlop
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030143787

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Implementing a Basic Income in Australia by Elise Klein,Jennifer Mays,Tim Dunlop Pdf

This book brings together scholars from the fields of politics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and economics, to explore pathways towards implementing a Basic Income in Australia. It is the first book of its kind to outline avenues for implementation of a basic income specifically for Australia and responds to a gap in the existing basic income literature and published titles to provide a distinct standpoint in the exploration of basic income within the Australian contemporary policy landscape. The first section of the book outlines some of the continuing substantive and philosophical issues regarding BI implementation. In the second section of the book, authors offer practical strategies and models for progressing BI in Australia.

Author : Guy Standing
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780300234183

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Basic Income by Guy Standing Pdf

Shouldn’t everyone receive a stake in society's wealth? Could we create a fairer world by guaranteeing income to all? What would this mean for our health, wealth, and happiness? Basic income is a revolutionary idea that guarantees regular, unconditional cash transfers from the government to all citizens. It is an acknowledgement that everyone plays a part in generating the wealth currently enjoyed by only a few and would rectify the recent breakdown in income distribution. Political parties across the world are now adopting this innovative policy and the idea generates headlines every day. Guy Standing has been at the forefront of thought surrounding basic income for the past thirty years, and in this book he covers in authoritative detail its effects on the economy, poverty, work, and labor; dissects and disproves the standard arguments against basic income; explains what we can learn from pilots across the world; and illustrates exactly why basic income has now become such an urgent necessity.

Author : Evelyn L. Forget
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781459415683

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Basic Income for Canadians by Evelyn L. Forget Pdf

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put millions out of work, the federal government implemented new measures which constituted Canada?s largest ever experiment with a basic income for almost everyone. In this new and revised edition, Evelyn L. Forget offers a clear-eyed look at how these emergency measures could be transformed into a program that ensures an adequate basic income for every Canadian. Forget details what we can learn from earlier basic income experiments in Canada and internationally. She weighs the options, investigates whether Canadians can afford a permanent basic income program and describes how it could best be implemented across the country. This accessible book offers everything a reader needs to decide if a basic income program is the right follow-up to the short-term government response to COVID-19.

Author : Philippe Van Parijs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674978096

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Basic Income by Philippe Van Parijs Pdf

Providing a basic income to everyone, rich or poor, active or inactive, was advocated by Paine, Mill, and Galbraith but the idea was never taken seriously. Today, with the welfare state creaking, it is one of the world’s most widely debated proposals. Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght present a comprehensive defense of this radical idea.