Robin Ketelaars, "You can also abuse the term Basic Income for personal gain" Orthelius.info, July 4, 2013: http://orthelius.info/blog/Index.php/you-can-also-abuse-the-term-basic-income-for-personal-gain-by-ems-elf-destini/. In this article, Robin Ketelaars, of BIEN's affiliate in the Netherlands and of the European Citizens' Initiative for Basic Income, discusses Desteni as a cult and outlines differences between LIG and BIG.
Karsten Lieberkind, "OPINION: Living Income Guaranteed -- A proposal for a Basic Income from Equal Life Foundation," BI News, September 23, 2013: http://binews.org/2013/09/opinion-living-income-guaranteed-a-proposal-for-a-basic-income-from-equal-life-foundation/. In an earlier opinion piece on BI News, Karsten Lieberkind, of BIEN's Danish affiliate discusses the LIG as an proposal related to Basic Income, without discussing the cult accusations.
The Living Income Guaranteed: http://basicincome.me/. A website run by ELF/Desteni has links to many articles related to their LIG proposal.
NAMIBIA: Central Bank to Discuss the Basic Income Grant
The Bank of Namibia (Namibia's central bank) will discuss the Basic Income Grant at it's upcoming annual symposium. The focus of this year's symposium is "Social safety nets in Namibia: Assessing current programmes and future options." Karl Widerquist, of Georgetown University-Qatar and co-chair of the Basic Income Earth Network, will be one of the featured speakers. He will discuss, "The Basic Income Grant as Social Safety Net for Namibia: Experience and lessons from around the world." The event will be attended by Namibia and international economists, executives of the Bank of Namibia, and members of the Namibian government.
More information about the symposium is online at: https://www.bon.com.na/Annual-Symposium.aspx
Information about the speakers is online at: https://www.bon.com.na/Annual-Symposium/Annual-Symposium-Speakers.aspx
INTERNATIONAL: Roisin Mulligan wins BIS Essay Prize
Roisin Mulligan of Dublin, Ireland won the Basic Income Studies (BIS) Essay Prize for papers presented at the 14th Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress held in Munich, Germany in September 2012. She received the award for her paper entitled "UBI and Recognition Theory - A Tangible Step towards an Ideal."
The BIS Essay Prize is organized by BIS in association with BIEN. The prize encourages promising research on basic income and related policies and is awarded to an essay that exemplifies a high standard of quality and original basic income research. The prize winner's paper is published as an article in BIS.
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