Basic income pilot in Kenya to receive up to $493,000 from eBay founder’s firm
The Omidyar Network announced in February 2017 that it will donate up to $493,000 to the charity GiveDirectly to support its major basic income experiment in Kenya.
View ArticleUS / KENYA: New study published on results of basic income pilot in Kenya
Village women. Credit to: Andrew Renneisen for The New York Times GiveDirectly, a New York-based nonprofit, which activity has been covered in Basic Income News before, has initiated a pilot program...
View ArticleCurrent Basic Income Experiments (and those so called): An Overview
An Overview of the Status of Basic Income (and Related) Experiments, as of the start of May 2017.
View ArticlePodcast: The largest basic income trial in history
Joe Huston, the CFO of GiveDirectly, speaks with the UBI Podcast about the largest basic income trial in history.
View ArticleKENYA: GiveDirectly’s Guaranteed Monthly Income Expands to 200 Villages Fall...
Pictured: Kenyan village to receive GiveDirectly’s guaranteed basic income Source: Nichole Sibecki for NPR GiveDirectly offers to give every adult in a Kenyan village a guaranteed basic income of...
View ArticleOverview of Current Basic Income Related Experiments (October 2017)
The year 2017 has been a watershed year for basic income, as multiple governments and private research groups have independently conceived and launched experimental trials of closely related policies....
View ArticleUS/KENYA: GiveDirectly Officially Launches UBI experiment
The US charity GiveDirectly has officially launched its trial of basic income in rural Kenya, and is now enrolling experimental participants.
View ArticleBBC UBI Radio Programme
The BBC has made a half-hour radio programme exploring the current universal basic income (UBI) experiment taking place in Kenya. The programme was originally broadcast on 31th of March 2018, as part...
View ArticleA Critical Poverty Eradication Experiment in Kenya
GiveDirectly formed a $30 million fund to benefit 20,000 Kenyans in the most important and thorough study about UBI in history
View ArticleTestimony of Kenya’s basic income beneficiaries
After the article “A Critical Poverty Eradication Experiment in Kenya”, published in the last issue of the BIEN News Flash, we now offer this complement with the interviews of the beneficiaries of the...
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