The Movement for Black Lives Matter has strongly endorsed Universal Basic Income. “No other social or economic policy solution today would be of sufficient scale to eradicate the profound and systematic economic inequities affecting black communities”. A Citizen’s Dividend, simply by being more helpful to one who is poor or disadvantaged compared to the rich, is a progressive idea.
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Citizen’s Dividend will increase our unity
Scott Santens quotes from a variety of studies of unconditional cash transfers to show that a Universal Basic Income increases social cohesion, and makes people happier. No better reason for a Citizen’s Dividend.
What is the Goa CM hiding?
The Goa CM, Laxmikant Parsekar, refused to provide details of iron ore exports in the Goa assembly yesterday, despite collecting the information. Team Herald reports.
Gujarat model of public sector mining
Public sector mining is one way to achieve Zero Loss mining. The Goa government should take a leaf from Gujarat and reserve the state from public sector mining.
Why are we in the dumps?
Dumps are a huge hidden store of value, a good starting corpus for the Permanent Fund
The Goa Guidelines on Intergenerational Equity
While Goa is setting new precedents in the implementation of Intergenerational Equity, it has a longer history with the idea. Intergenerational equity became a part of the discourse with the Brundtland Commission report “Our Common Future” in 1987. At the same time, Edith Brown Weiss headed a six member Advisory Group set up by the United Nations University. The six …
Prutha Goa discusses the Goenchi Mati proposal
Iris C F Gomes from Prutha Goa discusses the idea behind the Goenchi Mati campaign: “The example Rahul uses to explain intergenerational equity is that the iron ore is like inherited gold which brings no income. This would prompt one to sell the gold and traditionally buy land for agriculture from which you could derive income. This is something that could be …
Basic income and poverty
A fierce debate on whether a universal basic income can practically fight poverty has broken out. Kate McFarland reports on the fight at BIEN. We are proposing a Citizen’s Dividend, which deals with both the major objections: it has an identified source of financing, and it is distributed as a right of ownership, not a benefit. On the other hand, the …
How a oil fund helps a district in Indonesia avoid the resource curse
Bojonegoro, a district in East Java, Indonesia, seems to be avoiding the worst impacts of the Resource Curse, by using an oil fund, akin to our proposed Goenchi Mati Permanent Fund. Hasrul Hanif and Emanuel Bria opine in The Jakarta Post.
Announcing the Goenchi Mati Creatathon
Kokum, a design non-profit, is hosting a Creatathon for the Goenchi Mati campaign. We are thrilled! Its all day on sat&sun, 16&17 July, 2016, at the Design Center, Porvorim. There is also a talk on thursday 7th July, 2016 at 6:30pm the same venue introducing the idea and updating everyone on the current status. Be creative & have some fun if …