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Two Memoirs Tell the History of the Alaska Dividend | Alaska Dividend Blog
A Review Essay Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend is closer to a basic income than almost any other policy in the world today. The lessons of how it was created and how it became so popular and successful are extremely important to the basic income movement. Two autobiographies available now tell different parts of the story of the Alaska Dividend. One is by Jay Hammond, the governor who, more than anyone else, is responsible for creating the fund and dividend.
Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend: A policy ripe for export — Maine Opinion — Bangor Daily News
In April I had the privilege of participating in a workshop in Anchorage with seven other co-authors of our forthcoming book on Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend, the only example in the world of a universal dividend paid to all citizens based on commonly owned natural resources, in this case the oil from Alaska’s North Slope. The Alaska Permanent Fund was created over 30 years ago as a way to save oil revenue for the future and avoid the “resource curse,” the boom and bust cycle that afflicts many economies rich in resources. Shortly after the fund’s creation, with support from all political parties, Alaska instituted annual dividends to all residents — children included — that have averaged around $1,400 per person per year. The dividend is very popular and has contributed to Alaska’s having greater equality and a lower poverty rate than any other state.
Revenu garanti pour tous : quand la réalité devance l'utopie - Réduction des inégalités - Basta !
De Milton Friedman à James Tobin, l’idée d’un revenu minimum garanti suscite l’intérêt de nombreux économistes depuis quarante ans, mais n’a jamais vraiment été appliquée, à part sous la forme de programmes expérimentaux... mais néanmoins riches d’enseignement. Une des expériences les plus récentes et abouties à ce jour de mise en place d’un revenu garanti a été impulsée par la Namibian Basic Income Grant Coalition (Coalition namibienne pour le revenu de base), dans un village de Namibie. Durant deux années (2008-2009), les 930 villageois de moins de 60 ans d’Otjivero-Omitara, recevaient ainsi un revenu de base mensuel (BIG, pour Basic Income Grant) représentant l’équivalent de 9 euros par mois, sans aucune autre condition que celle d’habiter le village et alors qu’un tiers des Namibiens vivent avec moins d’un dollar par jour. L’économie locale dynamisée
Revenu de base, revenu de vie ou allocation universelle… Et si chacun, indépendamment de son statut, de son âge ou de son activité, disposait d’un revenu garanti, de sa naissance jusqu’à la mort ? À première vue, l’idée paraît utopique et suscite de sérieuses interrogations. Pourquoi les familles riches en profiteraient-elles autant que les pauvres ? Cela va-t-il favoriser « l’assistanat » ? Comment le financer, pour quels résultats ?
Revenu de base : une énième utopie ? | Tête de Quenelle !
OPINION: The Citizen’s Basic Income to Help the Transition to Democracy | Basic Income News
Essay presented to UN Regional Commissions’ High Level Meeting on Transition to Democracy, Beirut, Lebanon, January 15 and 16, 2012 It is an honor for me to be invited to participate in this “United Nations Regional Commissions’ High Level Meeting on Transition to Democracy”, in this panel on “Balancing Growth and Social Justice”, concerning mainly the Arab Countries, held in Beirut, Lebanon, on January 15 and 16, 2012. This is a highly relevant opportunity to exchange ideas about the experiences of so many countries in the five continents about how we can raise the level of justice in our societies so as to live with a sense of solidarity and peace.
A Town Without Poverty?: Canada's only experiment in guaranteed income finally gets reckoning | The Dominion
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Pas de revenu minimum garanti sans analyse | IEDM
On a beaucoup parlé récemment des façons de calculer le taux de pauvreté. Une solution qui refait surface pour la combattre est le revenu minimum garanti. Des personnalités aussi différentes que Milton Friedman, Martin Luther King et Charles Sirois ont proposé et défendu l'idée. Au Québec, elle sera sans doute présente lors des prochaines élections, puisque aussi bien l'Action démocratique que le nouveau parti de gauche en voie de formation y sont favorables. Pour certains, il s'agit d'un revenu universel inconditionnel remplaçant tous les programmes sociaux existants ou presque. Pour d'autres, c'est un programme parallèle.
INDIA: Basic Income Pilot Projects are underway | Basic Income News
Although barely reported in the media, two basic income pilot projects are have been underway in India since January 2011. One pilot is being conducted in part of Delhi and the other in eight small rural villages in Madhya Pradesh. The Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) began planning and raising money for the rural project in 2008.The coalition government of Mongolia is taking steps to make good on promises made in the 2008 election to introduce an Alaska-style resource dividend. Mongolia is a large, sparsely populated land-locked country sandwiched between Russian and China. About half of its citizens still live as nomadic herders.
MONGOLIA: Government takes steps toward implementing an Alaskan-style BIG | Basic Income News
PLENTY is a seasonal crop in Ocara, a parched district of Ceará, a state in Brazil's north-east. Most of its inhabitants piece together a living from odd jobs and family gardens until September, when the annual harvest of cashew nuts brings relief like a long-awaited rain. Recently, the contrast between fat months and lean ones has become less marked, for Ocara's poorest citizens are now drawing a year-round stipend from the government. It is not much, 120 reais ($52) a month at most for a family of five or more.
Poverty in Latin America: New thinking about an old problem | The Economist
BRAZIL: ReCivitas continues to expand private-funded BIG | Basic Income News
ReCivitas, the Brazilian organization that distributes a privately-funded basic income in a small village in Brazil, now has a pro-bono partnership with the biggest tax law office in Latin America, Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. and Quiroga. This partnership will give ReCivitas legal support for contracts for people who invest in the BIG Bank that supports the initiative. The BIG Bank, started by ReCivitas only a few weeks ago, already has 500,000 Brazilian Reals (About US$310,000)—thanks to donations and investments from as far a way as Japan. A small part of the interest to this fund will support the Basic Income, but the amount of investments in the fund is already enough to ensure that the project is sustainable at its current level.MENTION globalisation and most people think of goods heading across the world from East to West and dollars moving in the other direction. Yet globalisation works for ideas too. Take Brazil's Bolsa Família (“Family Fund”) anti-poverty scheme, the largest of its kind in the world. Known in development jargon as a “conditional cash transfer” programme, it was modelled partly on a similar scheme in Mexico. After being tested on a vast scale in several Latin American countries, a refined version was recently implemented in New York City in an attempt to improve opportunities for children from poor families. Brazilian officials were in Cairo this week to help Egyptian officials set up a similar scheme.
Brazil: Happy families | The Economist
THREE generations of the Teixeira family live in three tiny rooms in Eldorado, one of the poorest favelas (slums) of Greater São Paulo, the largest city in the Americas. The matriarch of the family, Maria, has six children; her eldest daughter, Marina, has a toddler and a baby. Like many other households in the favela , the family has been plagued by domestic violence. But a few years ago, helped in part by Bolsa Família (family grant)—which pays mothers a small sum so long as their children stay in education and get medical check-ups—Maria took her children out of child labour and sent them to school. The programme allows the children to miss about 15% of classes.
Brazil's Bolsa Família: How to get children out of jobs and into school | The Economist
Several proposals being floated in the Alaska legislature right now would increase the size of the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) and therefore the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD). The PFD is Alaska’s small Basic Income. The state saves a portion of its oil revenue in the APF, which is invested in stocks, bonds, real estate, and other assets all over the world. Each year it pays a dividend, the PFD, to every Alaska resident. The APF is currently at about $40 billion; it produces dividends averaging about $1,350 per person per year over the last 20 years.