Exploring Universal Basic Income: A Guide to Navigating Concepts, Evidence, and Practices

By: Margaret Grosh and Jamele Rigolini and Ugo Gentilini and Ruslan Yemtsov

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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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781464815119
Related ISBNs:: 9781464814587
Publisher:: World Bank Publications
Date of Addition:: 12/14/19
Copyrighted By:: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Ugo Gentilini
Edited by:: Margaret Grosh
Edited by:: Jamele Rigolini
Edited by:: Ruslan Yemtsov