The project randomly assigned 8 out of 20
villages in the study to receive the grant, while the other 12
villages were used as controls. Every adult man and woman in the
treatment villages received a grant of 200 Rupees (about US$3 or
N$30) per month and every child received 100 Rupees per month.
After one year, the amounts were increased to 300 Rupees and 150
Rupees respectively. A total of 6,000 individuals in the 8
villages received the grants for 12 to 17 months. The amount was
equivalent to about 20 to 30 percent of household income for the
lower-income families in the study.
Researchers conducting the study found that the grants
significantly reduced hunger, malnutrition, and illness among
recipients. Recipients increased ownership of livestock, reduced,
improved school attendance, improved school attendance, and
increased investment in agricultural implements. Researchers found
no increase in alcohol consumption in the treatment villages.
Importantly, the study also found that grant recipients worked
more than people in the control villages and that they were three
times more likely to start a new business. These results for a
positive effect on work effort and earned income (found both the
Uganda and the India studies) are confirmed by evidence from cash
transfer programs. For example, in South Africa, the Old Age
Pension, the Child Support Grant, and the Disability Grant all
helped to raise labor force participation and employment.
SEWA, "Unconditional cash transfers: SEWA pilots a unique
experiment in Madhya Pradesh," We the Self-Employed: SEWA's
Electronic Newsletter, No. 50, June 2013.
http://www.sewa.org/enewsletter/Previous-E-News-Letter.asp
Jourdan, Stanislas. "The Dangers and Hopes of the Precariat: An Interview with Guy Standing."
Aynur Bashirova -- BI News -- 2013.
Guy Standing, in his interview with Stanislas Jourdan, published in Basic Income UK, talks about the rising social class called "Precariat" and its dangers for society. Standing is a Professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath and one of the founders and co-president of BIEN. Precariat is a social class, members of which suffer from precarity, existence without predictability or security. It started with governments making labor markets more flexible and more and more people ended up being pushed into precariat. This social class encompasses three types of people. The first type is the people coming from working class conditions. Second type is the immigrants. The ones that belong to the final type are the young, educated people. All three of them have different social consciousness, but more and more they came to share the same feeling of precarity. Solution to this condition, according to Standing, is BI, which will create more security, both in private and work life of people belonging to this social group. He believes that movements led mostly by young people will become a wake up call for politicians to realize the existing situation and its solution.
Jourdan, Stanislas. (6 August 2013). "The Dangers and Hopes of the Precariat: An Interview with Guy Standing." Basic Income UK. http://basicincome.org.uk/article/2013/08/guy-standing-interview-precariat/.
Red Pepper, "David Harvey interview: The Importance of Post-Capitalist Imagination"
[Jason Burke Murphy - USBIG]
In a recent interview, Harvey, a Marxist
professor of Geography at City University of New York, gives a
list of important "post-capitalist" measures. A Basic Income
Guarantee (BIG) will be needed if money is reformed to prevent the
centralization of power. He argues that money should lose value if
held over time "like air miles." BIG
prevents this loss of value from rendering anyone vulnerable.
Red Pepper, "David
Harvey Interview: The Importance of Post-Capitalist Imagination",
Red Pepper, 2013.
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/david-harvey-interview-the-importance-of-postcapitalist-imagination/
Guy Standing, "Pleasure Before Business"
In The European, Basic Income Earth
Network co-founder Guy Standing argues that globalization and
technological developments pose an opportunity if the precariat,
and those who may join it, work together for economic security,
including a BIG. He also seeks to counter frequent objections to
BIG.
At the end of the article, there are links to 3 other economists,
who were also part of a series on the "Changing Nature of Work."
One of them, by Bo Cutter, mentions BIG dismissively, argues that
government should promote jobs, then asserts that it won't do so
anytime soon.
Guy Standing, "Pleasure Before Business," The European;
July 28th, 2013.
http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/guy-standing--2/7231-life-after-labor
See also: Cutter, Bo; "Roll Up Your Sleeves"; The European;
July 27th, 2013.
http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/bo-cutter--2/7223-automation-and-entrepreneurship
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