[P2P-F] Special report : a basic minimum income in India

Fri May 3 17:56:41 CEST 2013

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-income-program-saved-a-namibian-village-a-642310.html

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 ...

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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 <olivierauber2 at gmail.com>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
>
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