The campaign for World Basic Income, a global scheme to redistribute wealth, share natural assets and end poverty. Also known as Global Citizens Income, Universal Dividend and other names.
  • What and why
    • What is WBI? >
      • Cross-border basic income campaigns
      • National basic income campaigns
      • Cash transfers around the world
    • Why have a WBI? >
      • Our right to life
      • Tackle inequality
      • We can end poverty
      • Life in a world of machines
      • Why for the whole world?
      • Why give basic income to the well-off?
  • How WBI could work
    • Funding a world basic income
    • How much would we get?
    • Distributing the money
    • Possible effects of a WBI
  • Who we are
  • What we do
  • Blog
  • Support WBI
  • Contact us
  • WBI in the media
  • Events
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  • What and why
    • What is WBI? >
      • Cross-border basic income campaigns
      • National basic income campaigns
      • Cash transfers around the world
    • Why have a WBI? >
      • Our right to life
      • Tackle inequality
      • We can end poverty
      • Life in a world of machines
      • Why for the whole world?
      • Why give basic income to the well-off?
  • How WBI could work
    • Funding a world basic income
    • How much would we get?
    • Distributing the money
    • Possible effects of a WBI
  • Who we are
  • What we do
  • Blog
  • Support WBI
  • Contact us
  • WBI in the media
  • Events
  • Links

world basic income news 

A new proposal for climate justice: International carbon charge and dividend

12/7/2020

 
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Paper on "Just Transition" submitted to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty

16/6/2020

 
World Basic Income, in partnership with Rahul Basu of the Goa Foundation, has submitted a paper to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty. The paper proposes an International Carbon Charge and Dividend as a key policy for worldwide "Just Transition" to a green economy.

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WEBINAR - Basic income: A better world after the pandemic

15/5/2020

 
Extinction Rebellion's Ideas Exchange invited WBI's directors and International Advisory Board members to a panel discussion on basic income. You can watch an edited version here. ​

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Oxfam calls for $1 trillion of global money creation in order to provide cash transfers for everyone who needs them

10/4/2020

 
Oxfam International is calling for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to create $1 trillion worth of 'Special Drawing Rights' (SDRs) - the IMF's global currency - to provide cash transfers to every person in the world who needs them. The aim is to stave off a massive increase in global poverty, which Oxfam's new report predicts could return to the shocking levels of thirty years ago.

The report states, "In countries like Kenya and Cambodia, tens of thousands of factory and farm workers are being told to go home. Women workers will be among the hardest hit, as they are more likely to be engaged in informal and precarious work... Today only one in five of all unemployed workers has access to unemployment benefits."

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Podcast:  Basic income and the global pandemic struggle

10/4/2020

 
World Basic Income's Laura Bannister and Paul Harnett contribute to FEASTA's 'Bridging the Gaps' podcast, to discuss why a worldwide basic income - a regular cash payment for every adult and child in the world - is vital as part of the global response to the coronavirus pandemic.

To listen, choose Podcast 3 here. Laura and Paul's contribution begins at 17:16min.
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Proposed world basic income triples to $30 per person

3/4/2020

 
The amount that can be paid out each month as world basic income will depends on how much can be raised through global taxation and other charges. When we began this campaign we proposed a world basic income of $10 per person per month. However, our calculations have since shown that, with just a few small taxes and charges applied to over-use of the global commons, we could raise enough for a significantly higher basic income. In early 2020 we therefore began discussions about increasing the proposed starting amount.

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Coronavirus will cause starvation. Only a truly universal basic income can prevent it.

29/3/2020

 
Children in the town of Naivasha, Kenya might catch coronavirus, but like most kids their symptoms should be mild. A bigger problem for them right now is that their parents just lost their jobs. They worked in Kenya’s cut flower industry, which is currently destroying fifty tonnes of roses and other flowers every day because their customers in Europe have almost completely stopped buying. The workforce has already been cut by half, and is likely to drop further. Some families may get support from the Kenyan government’s cash transfer scheme but it’s a struggle for most African countries to support unemployed workers and many will go without. 

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Why Liverpool football star Sadio Mane is a genius

1/11/2019

 
Sadio Mane is a genius, and not just on the pitch. He is providing an $85 monthly basic income to people in a poor region in Senegal, direct from his own salary.
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Carbon fee and dividend: How to reach Net Zero while ending extreme poverty

6/8/2019

 
Genuine climate justice means thinking big when it comes to economic inequality. A 'carbon fee and dividend' would reduce emissions and poverty.
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An interview with Sarath Davala of India Network for Basic Income

14/5/2019

 
World Basic Income's Laura Bannister interviewed Sarath Davala, head of the India Network for Basic Income, at the Nordic Basic Income Conference in Oslo, April 2019.
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