Exploring Universal Basic Income

Ugo Gentilini, Margaret Grosh, Iamele Rigolini and Ruslan Yemtsov

No 32677 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Poverty; Reduction-Employment; and; Shared; Growth; Poverty; Reduction-Inequality; Poverty; Reduction-Services; &; Transfers; to; Poor; Social; Protections; and; Labor-Labor; Markets; Social; Protections; and; Labor-Social; Protections; &; Assistance; Public; Sector; Development-Public; Sector; Expenditure; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4648-1458-7
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