Universal Basic Income in the Developing World
Should developing countries give all of their citizens enough money to live on? Interest in this idea has grown enormously in recent years, reflecting both positive results from a number of existing cash transfer programs and dissatisfaction with the perceived limitations of piecemeal, targeted appr...
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| author | Banerjee, Abhijit Niehaus, Paul Suri, Tavneet |
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| description | Should developing countries give all of their citizens enough money to live on? Interest in this idea has grown enormously in recent years, reflecting both positive results from a number of existing cash transfer programs and dissatisfaction with the perceived limitations of piecemeal, targeted approaches to reducing extreme poverty. We discuss what we know (and what we do not) about three questions: what recipients would likely do with the incremental income, whether this would unlock further economic growth, and whether giving the money to everyone (as opposed to targeting it) would be wise. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1227812022-10-01T03:34:03Z Universal Basic Income in the Developing World Banerjee, Abhijit Niehaus, Paul Suri, Tavneet Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sloan School of Management. Applied Economics Group Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics Should developing countries give all of their citizens enough money to live on? Interest in this idea has grown enormously in recent years, reflecting both positive results from a number of existing cash transfer programs and dissatisfaction with the perceived limitations of piecemeal, targeted approaches to reducing extreme poverty. We discuss what we know (and what we do not) about three questions: what recipients would likely do with the incremental income, whether this would unlock further economic growth, and whether giving the money to everyone (as opposed to targeting it) would be wise. 2019-11-06T20:30:03Z 2019-11-06T20:30:03Z 2019-08 2019-02 2019-10-21T16:43:07Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1941-1383 1941-1391 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122781 Banerjee, Abhijit et al. "Universal Basic Income in the Developing World." Annual Review of Economics 11 (August 2019):959-983 © 2019 Annual Reviews en http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080218-030229 Annual Review of Economics Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Annual Reviews MIT web domain |
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