Exploring Universal Basic Income

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Synopsis

Universal basic income (UBI) is emerging as one of the most hotly debated

issues in development and social protection policy. But what are the

features of UBI? What is it meant to achieve? How do we know, and

what don’t we know, about its performance? What does it take to implement

it in practice? Drawing from global evidence, literature, and survey data, this

volume provides a framework to elucidate issues and trade-offs in UBI with a view

to help inform choices around its appropriateness and feasibility in different contexts.

Specifically, the book examines how UBI differs from or complements other

social assistance programs in terms of objectives, coverage, incidence, adequacy,

incentives, effects on poverty and inequality, financing, political economy, and

implementation. It also reviews past and current country experiences, surveys the

full range of existing policy proposals, provides original results from micro†“tax benefit

simulations, and sets out a range of considerations around the analytics and

practice of UBI.

Hakimiliki:: 2020 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank