Fantastic ! Thanks Olivier for the link regarding this basic income project in India. Reminds me of a similar project in Namibia http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-new-approach-to-aid-how-a-basic-... also see : http://www.bignam.org/BIG_pilot.html , http://www.bignam.org/BIG_publications.html Unfortunatly the contination of the Namibian project seems to have been discouraged by certain institutions ( influence of international institutions ? - see excerpts below ) Ideally, I would like to see such project emerge while supporting alternative currencies - I imagine a regio type of currency, backed by the basic income - so that it further encourages local production and regional economic development, further vector of development and empowerment, avoiding money to get out of the system, and ideally also applying demurrage to the alternative currency ( and an exchange tax ) as to reduce hoarding / create further incentives for circulation of the currency within the local economy ... /// www.bien2012.org/sites/default/files/paper_196_en.pdf excerpt : *Despite this economic evidence by the BIG Coalition* *and the arguments for the positive social and developmental impact of a BIG to curb the high and* *unsustainable levels of poverty in Namibia, the IMF delegation made its opposition to the BIG clear.* *The IMF insisted that it will continue to advise government accordingly. It thus is obvious that the IMF* *entered the debate against the BIG on pure ideological grounds and not based on economic or social* *considerations!* On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:48 AM, olivier auber <[email protected]>wrote:
Rupees in your pocket
An experiment in paying villagers in one of India’s poorest states an unconditional basic income has been successful enough to change the government’s thinking.
"The idea of unconditional income comes from the failure of conditional programmes. As soon as there are conditions, there is erosion. Conditionality means intermediaries, which means power, which means corruption.”
http://mondediplo.com/2013/05/04income
_______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation