Universal Basic Income in the Developing World
By Abhijit Banerjee, Paul Niehaus, Tavneet Suri. Annual Review of Economics, 2019
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Should developing countries give all of their citizens enough money to live on? Interest in this idea has grown enormously in recent years, reflecting both positive results from a number of existing cash transfer programs and dissatisfaction with the perceived limitations of piecemeal, targeted approaches to reducing extreme poverty. We discuss what we know (and what we do not) about three questions: what recipients would likely do with the incremental income, whether this would unlock further economic growth, and whether giving the money to everyone (as opposed to targeting it) would be wise.
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science
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- Exploring Universal Basic Income: A Guide to Navigating Concepts, Evidence, and Practices (2019, background): “, Baird, McKenzie, and Özler 2018; Banerjee et al. 2015; Bastagli et al. 2016; Bosch and Manacorda 2012; Owusu-Addo, Renzaho, and Smith 2018). Bastagli et al. (2016) review the evidence spanning 15 years (2000–15), from 165 low- and middle-income countries and find that cash transfers (noncontributo”