Tuesday, October 15, 2024
In support of a basic income pilot project, 95,000 signatures were collected. The referendum could take place parallel to the German federal election.
Friday, February 16, 2024
The covid-19 pandemic prompted an unprecedented global response, with nations implementing various social protection measures to mitigate the socio-economic impacts of lockdowns and restrictions. This blog, based on our forthcoming article “How did COVID...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
When the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting recession pushed 120 million people worldwide into extreme poverty in 2020, many countries relied on social-protection measures to cushion the blow. By May 2021, a total of 3,333 such schemes had been planned...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
While the COVID-19 pandemic and current cost of living crisis has exacerbated social inequalities and economic insecurity, it has also opened a window of opportunity to explore new forms of policy innovation to build back a fairer and more economically...
Monday, July 18, 2022
Human Rights Watch is not the first to lament the frailties of Spain's social protection. In 2019, the European Commission highlighted that "the capacity of social transfers other than pensions to reduce poverty remains among the lowest in...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
With projections that the boom of automation in the 21st century will replace much of traditional work, the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI), a minimum monthly income that the government provides, has been repeatedly touted since the turn of the...
Thursday, March 31, 2022
MSc Anthropology and Development alum Adhvik Shetty looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed Britain’s food insecurity crisis and argues that social protection policies are necessary to prevent those most vulnerable to economic shocks from facing...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
We urgently need new social-ecological policies to simultaneously tackle the climate emergency and create a fairer society. Such social-ecological policies would need to support societies to stay within planetary boundaries, satisfy everyone’s basic...
Thursday, October 19, 2017
A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of attending the annual conference of the Basic Income Earth Network. The humbling experience had no shortage of people who have worked on, thought of, and advocated for universal basic income (UBI)...
