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How Cash Transfers Promote the Case for Basic Income
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Guy Standing
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July 11, 2008
There has long been a minority view that providing people with cash is an effective way of combating poverty and economic insecurity while promoting livelihoods and work. The mainstream view has nevertheless been that giving people money, without conditions or obligations, promotes idleness and dependency, while being unnecessarily costly. This paper reviews recent evidence on various types of schemes implemented in developing countries, including several pilot cash transfer schemes, assessing them by reference to principles of social justice. It concludes that experience with cash transfers is strengthening the case for a universal basic income.
Keywords: Keywords – basic income; cash transfers; disability grants; economic security; food aid; social pensions; vouchers
Published Online: 2008-7-11
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Keywords for this article
Keywords – basic income;
cash transfers;
disability grants;
economic security;
food aid;
social pensions;
vouchers
Articles in the same Issue
- Front Matter
- Content
- From the Editors
- List of Contributors
- Research Article
- Basic Income and the Labor Contract
- How Cash Transfers Promote the Case for Basic Income
- Basic Income and the Canadian Welfare State: Exploring the Realms of Possibility
- Book Review
- Review of Joel F. Handler and Yeheskel Hasenfeld, Blame Welfare, Ignore Poverty and Inequality
- Review of Charles Murray, In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
- Review of Paul Kershaw, Carefair: Rethinking the Responsibilities and Rights of Citizenship
