The talk page is: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Basic_Income&action=edit -ion=new
The associated Facebook group is: http://www.facebook.com/groups/605548516131965/
MALAYSIA: Is Malaysia introducing a BIG?"
Malaysia's new program called Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M) that has some elements of the negative income tax (NIT) variant of the basic income guarantee. Receipt of benefits is not automatic, but those who are eligible need to apply by filling out a from. There has been little discussion of the connection between BR1M and NIT, but a recent commentary by Kang Beng Ho discusses BR1M in context of the NIT.
Kang Beng, Ho, "Is BR1M a negative income tax?"
the Star Online
[Malaysia], Monday May
20, 2013
http://www.thestar.com.my/story.aspx?file=%2f2013%2f5%2f20%2fbusiness%2f13090411&sec=business
VENEZUELA: A Citizen's Income for Full-Time Mothers
[BICN - Jenna van Draanen -- June 2013]
A recently published news article describes a
new pension
for full-time mothers in Venezuela. According to Chew, a labor law
has been
passed to allow mothers to collect pensions for the work they
perform in the
household. The article describes the Chavistas' new labor law as
anti-sexist in the way
that it recognizes the "monetary value of housework." The idea
of a pension for
mothers is similar to some conceptualizations of basic income
because of its
universality and because it operates on the fundamental premise
that an
individual is entitled to an income based on something other
than their
participation in the labour market.
The article written by Kristina Chew can be found at: http://www.care2.com/causes/venezuela-to-pay-pensions-to-full-time-mothers.html#ixzz2VNVHamfr
5. Events
ANCHORAGE ALASKA: "How the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Could Work in Iraq and Other Countries: A Conversation with Todd Moss," June 3, 2013
Monday, June 3, 2013 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
As part of the University of Alaska Anchorage's Institute of Social and Economic Research series of lunchtime talks, "Understanding Alaska," Todd Moss discussed whether something like Alaska's Basic Income, the Permanent Fund and Dividend, could work in Iraq and other countries. Todd Moss, editor of The Governor's Solution and vice president of the Center for Global Development. The Governor's Solution features the firsthand account of Governor Jay Hammond that describes, with brutal honesty and piercing humor, the birth of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, which has been paid to each resident every year since 1982.
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