Universal Basic Income in the Developing World
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20190204 - AR - consolidated draft.pdf
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Author(s)
Banerjee, Abhijit
Niehaus, Paul
Suri, Tavneet
Date Issued
August 2019
Journal
Annual Review of Economics
Publisher
Annual Reviews
Citation
Banerjee, Abhijit et al. "Universal Basic Income in the Developing World." Annual Review of Economics 11 (August 2019):959-983 © 2019 Annual Reviews
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
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.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sloan School of Management. Applied Economics Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080218-030229
