The Navhind Times carried a couple of interesting articles by Dr. Nandkumar Kamat titled “How Goa missed the bus in iron ore exports”. His articles show clearly how Goa lost out during the mining stoppage. This new article titled “Mining of past 8 years was a total loss for our future generations” published by Navhind elaborates on Dr. Kamat’s articles. You can …
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The feminist case again
Jack Smith IV has a nice derivative article on the feminist case on Mic.com.
Natural resources governance MOOC starts soon
Starts Feb 1. Do sign up. Encourage you to join Goxi.org as well. “The United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, in partnership with the Natural Resource Governance Institute, the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, and the World Bank have assembled a world class faculty to present a free Massive Open Online Course on Natural Resources for Sustainable Development.”
Conservatives and Liberals
An interesting article on Basic Income News by Timothy Roscoe Carter discusses what it would take liberals to push for Universal Basic Income.
Different perspectives
A feminist perspective on Universal Basic Income. A look at the future and why Universal Basic Income will be necessary. A look at inequality and the issues it creates, and how Universal Basic Income can help.
Iceland …
Iceland has proposed to distribute proceeds from the sale of one of their banks to all their citizens. Equality & freedom. Read more at http://www.ewao.com/a/first-they-jailed-the-bankers-now-every-icelander-to-get-paid-in-bank-sale/
Citizen’s Dividend could reduce migration
This article in Down To Earth talks about abandoned villages in Uttarakhand. The experience with the dividend in Alaska was that rural urban migration reduced. However, there was greater expense on providing adequate quality public services on remote places.
UBI Petition to the US Presidential Election candidates
Basic Income Action has created an online petition to the US Presidential candidates asking them to support UBI. You can sign the petition here.
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The Goenchi Mati Permanent Fund Campaign
We argue: When we inherit something, we are simply custodians. We are obliged to preserve the value of our inheritance and pass it on to our children. Minerals are non-renewable inherited assets. In particular in India, the state government owns minerals, not the federal government or the land owner (as in the US). So this obligation to preserve the value …