We need to reset along a more equitable and smart path. That is the intent, but what would be the concrete (and new) ways of doing it? The UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab brings the latest by leading experts as they debate ideas and hands-on policy solutions to these challenges.  

 

 

POLICY PAPER

 

Basic income - on data and policy

 

 

THINK PIECES

 

Cost of survival: examining crisis impacts in Ontario by Mohammad Ferdosi, Peter Graefe, Wayne Lewchuk and Stephanie Ross of McMaster University

 

Building "forward" instead of rebuilding "back" better by Mehdi Shiva of University of Oxford

 

Racial capitalism and the impact of COVID-19 on migrant women workers in Lebanon by Sawsan Abdulrahim and Farah Salkal of American University of Beirut

 

On how Ontario trialed basic income by Mohammad Ferdosi, Wayne Lewchuk and Stephanie Ross of McMaster University, and Tom McDowell of Ryerson University

 

Sustainable welfare: would a mix of universal basic income and universal basic services help? by Milena Buchs of the University of Leeds

 

UBI is stuck in a policy trap - here’s how to reframe the debate by Liz Fouksman of King's College London

 

What we know and we don't about basic income by John Crowley of PHGD, and Iulia Sevciuc of UNESCO

 

Move the debate from Universal Basic Income to Universal Basic Services by Ian Gough of London School of Economics

 

Greening the Basic Income by Mark Paul of New College of Florida

 

Minimum subsistence income, the Spanish way by Jordi Sevilla of La Caixa 

 

Gender inequality in times of COVID-19 – give women cash by Guy Standing of SOAS University of London  

 

 

PODCASTS 

 

Too risk averse, too path dependent – redesign governance systems to face shocks with Mark Esposito of Hult International Business School, Harvard University and Georgetown University

 

Is the 4-day workweek the solution we've been looking for? with Juliet Schor of Boston College

 

We live in times of abundance, yet our incapacity to govern it is tearing societies apart with Manuel Muñiz of IE University

 

We embraced dysfunctional growth, change course with Mariana Mazzucato of University College London

 

Recast your economic rulebook, deliver for people with Dani Rodrik of Harvard Kennedy School

 

Universal Basic Services vs. Universal Basic Income - let's talk with Anna Coote and Maeve Cohen of Social Guarantee

 

India's quest for basic income with Sarath Davala of the Basic Income Earth Network 

 

California trials basic income, other 14 pilots are in sight with Amy Castro-Baker of University of Pennslyvania, and Stacia West of University of Tennessee

 

Coronavirus Supplement, the Australian way of income support in crisis with Elise Klein of Australian National University 

 

Put carbon dividend at the core of post-COVID reboot with Anders Fremstad of Colorado State University 

 

Basic Income – deciphering the promises and the data with Ioana Marinescu of the University of Pennslyvania 

 

Close social protection gaps to reset equitably after COVID-19 with Monika Queisser of the OECD

 

Universal Basic Income and beyond — what are our options for recovery with Balázs​ Horvath of UNDP Asia and the Pacific

 

 

E-TEAMS

 

Basic Income in and beyond the COVID crisis

 

 

CHANNEL

 

THE POLICY NERD podcast channel