Basic Income

A Transformative Policy for India

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19935720
AutoresSarath Davala (autor correspondente), Renana Jhabvala, Soumya Kapoor Mehta, Guy Standing
Ano2015
Data de publicação2015-01-01
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoBasic Income (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraBloomsbury Publishing plc (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.5040/9781472593061
OpenAlexW4213059971
Open LibraryOL51667778M
ISBN9781472593061
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas28

Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditional monthly cash payment. In a context in which the Indian government at national and state levels spends a vast amount on subsidies and selective schemes that are chronically expensive, inefficient, inequitable and subject to extensive corruption, there is scope for switching at least some of the spending to a modest basic income. This book explores what would be likely to happen if this were done. The book draws on a series of evaluation surveys conducted over the course of the eighteen months in which the main pilot was in operation, supplemented with detailed case studies of individuals and families. It looks at the impact on health and nutrition, on schooling, on economic activity, women’s agency and the welfare of those with disabilities. Above all, the book considers whether or not a basic income could be transformative, in not only improving individual and family welfare but in promoting economic growth and development, as well as having an emancipatory effect for people long mired in conditions of poverty and economic insecurity

Agency (philosophy) · Basic income · Basic needs · Cash · Citizenship · Context (archaeology) · Debt · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Public economics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Subsidy · Transformative learning · Welfare · Welfare state · Computer Science · Finance · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Economic policy · Income · India · Madhya pradesh (india)