This Webinar reviews key issues and evidence on UBI as a social protection measure, identifies emerging lessons from cross-country experiences, and reflects on its potential and limitations as both a crisis response and long-term intervention.
Our societies have seen epidemics and outbreaks from which we have, or we should have, learned. What are those lessons? What does research tell us about the social dynamics of the pandemic and of our responses to it? We discuss these questions with researchers in this specific field – IDS’ Melissa Leach, Hayley MacGregor, Annie Wilkinson and Ian Scoones.
This article, authored by Guy Standing, discusses basic income systems as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly to address the gender-based inequality highlighted in the crisis.
In this podcast we discuss inequality and climate change with Professor Tahseen Jafry, Director of the Centre for Climate Justice at Glasgow Caledonian University. Tune it to untangle the triple injustice of climate change.
