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Pilots, Evidence, and Politics: The Basic Income Debate in India

In: The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income

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  • Sarath Davala

    (India Network for Basic Income)

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Davala describes the Basic Income pilot conducted in India between 2011 and 2013 by the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in collaboration with UNICEF. Across nine villages, about six thousand individuals were given a Basic Income for twelve to seventeen months. A modified Random Control Trial methodology was employed. The results showed that the Basic Income allowed poor people to make better choices about their livelihoods and employment, and that they ate better food, accessed better health care, borrowed less, and cultivated and produced more, and that several women became entrepreneurs. Since the project, interest in Basic Income has grown among Indian policy makers, to whom Basic Income’s administrative efficiency is attractive, as is Basic Income’s popularity with the electorate.

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  • Sarath Davala, 2023. "Pilots, Evidence, and Politics: The Basic Income Debate in India," Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, in: Malcolm Torry (ed.), The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income, edition 2, chapter 0, pages 397-411, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-3-031-41001-7_20
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-41001-7_20
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