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The Right to Existence in Developing Countries: Basic Income in East Timor
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David Casassas
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September 20, 2010
In this article we consider the potential of a Basic Income (BI) as a mechanism for promoting well-integrated and autonomous social and productive development in newly independent Democratic Republic of East Timor, and for expanding the freedom of this country’s population that is struggling to throw off the bitter legacy of colonial and postcolonial dispossession and violence. We briefly outline the main social and economic problems faced by the new Democratic Republic of East Timor. Then we argue that a BI financed by oil and natural gas revenues could play a major role in combating these problems.
Published Online: 2010-9-20
©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
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Keywords for this article
Keywords – development;
domestic economy;
financing models;
freedom;
natural resources.
Articles in the same Issue
- Front Matter
- Content
- List of Contributors
- Research Article
- Alternative Basic Income Mechanisms: An Evaluation Exercise With a Microeconometric Model
- Why Cash Violates Neutrality
- Near-Universal Basic Income
- Research Note
- The Right to Existence in Developing Countries: Basic Income in East Timor
- Baby Steps: Basic Income and the Need for Incremental Organizational Development
- Book Review
- Review of Alanna Hartzok, The Earth Belongs to Everyone
