{UAH} Universal Basic Income: Has its Time Come?
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Robert Atuhairwe/ Frank Mujabi,
Tune in to this programme which has been broadcasting on the BBC World Service for the last three days. It is about the Universal Income, which is now being hotly debated in intellectual circles. With globalization and gigantic and manic development in digital and computer technology, it is clear that most low end jobs will no longer be available in future, even in just 15 years time. With revolution in farming, a small country like the Netherlands is now able to supply the world supply in grain in just a few km of high tech agricultural land, reclaimed from the sea. Introduced to Africa, this would eliminate the need for peasant farming; equally Dutch methods of intensive dairy farming would eliminate the need for diary farming. The Swiss voted on the idea a few weeks ago, but this was narrowly defeated. But it is an idea woth thinking about.
This makes me wonder what the intellectuals in kayibanda's mafia outfit are thinking about, when they suggest Uganda will be a middle income country by 2010. Other people ar thnking at a far higher level than Kayibanda's gun-pushers. Africa needs pen-pushers, rather than gun-pushers, brain rather than brawn.
Bobby
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It's an idea that's been around for hundreds of years: To give everyone in society a regular chunk of money that is enough to guarantee them a minimum survivable standard of living. Often called Universal or Unconditional Basic Income, the idea has supporters on both right and left. It was cast back into the spotlight this year when the Swiss held a referendum on whether to introduce it. Pilot schemes to test the idea are cropping up everywhere from Finland to the Netherlands to the US and Kenya. One reason it's gathering such momentum is concern over new technologies eliminating many low-end jobs. Last week the founder of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk said the impact of automation on the job market meant that some form of Universal Basic Income would become inevitable. But not everyone agrees a Basic Income is inevitable, or even desirable, and for those who do support the idea, there's disagreement over almost every aspect of how it should be implemented: To what extent could it replace the Welfare State? Would it incentivise people to work? Can people be trusted to spend the money wisely? And how could it be funded? To discuss all this and more, the BBC's Ed Butler is joined by a panel of four: Professor Louise Haagh, Reader of Politics at the University of York, and the co-chair of the Basic Income Earth Network; Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow of the CATO Institute in Washington DC; Michael Faye, co-founder of Give Directly, which is piloting its own Universal Income project in Kenya; and Professor Ian Gough of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics. (Photo: Giant campaign poster in Plainpalais Place in Geneva in 2016 saying: What would you do if your income was taken care of? Credit: AFP/ Fabrice Coffrini/Getty Images)
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It's an idea that's been around for hundreds of years: To give everyone in society a regular chunk of money that is enough to guarantee them a minimum survivable standard of living. Often called Universal or Unconditional Basic Income, the idea has supporters on both right and left. It was cast back into the spotlight this year when the Swiss h ...…
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