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Current, Planned, and Proposed Experiments, 2014–Present

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This chapter briefly discusses some of the now ongoing Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments, proposed UBI experiments, and experiments in policies similar to UBI. The book references these experiments only rarely, because its goal is not to analyze or criticize them, but to offer some useful analysis to the people commissioning, designing, conducting, reporting on, and reading about them.

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  1. 1.

    https://givedirectly.org/

  2. 2.

    Olli Kangas, “Final Report for the Finnish Basic Income Experiment Recommends That the Experiment Be Expanded,” (Helsinki, Finland: Kela, 2017); “From Idea to Experiment: Report on Universal Basic Income Experiment in Finland,” in Working Papers (Helsinki, Finland: Kela, 2016).

  3. 3.

    Olli Kangas, Miska Simanainen, and Pertti Honkanen, “Basic Income in the Finnish Context,” Intereconomics 52, no. 2 (2017).

  4. 4.

    Ibid.

  5. 5.

    Ministry of Community and Social Services, “Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot: Studying the Impact of a Basic Income,” ed. Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services (Toronto: Queen’s Printer for Ontario, 2018); E. L. Forget et al., “Pilot Lessons: How to Design a Basic Income Pilot Project for Ontario,” in Mowat Research (Toronto: Mowat Centre, 2016).

  6. 6.

    Ministry of Community and Social Services; Forget et al.

  7. 7.

    Y Combinator Research, “Basic Income Project Proposal” (Oakland, CA: Y Combinator Research, 2017).

  8. 8.

    Loek Groot and Robert van der Veen, remarks made at the workshop on basic income experiments held at the Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University in Qatar, March 26, 2018.

  9. 9.

    Jochen Kluve, “The Effectiveness of European Active Labour Market Programs,” Labour Economics 17, no. 6 (2010); S. Bouquin, “Social Minima in Europe: The Risks of Cumulating Income-Sources,” in The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee, ed. Karl Widerquist, M. A. Lewis, and S. Pressman (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005). Loek Groot and Robert van der Veen, remarks made at the workshop on basic income experiments held at the Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University in Qatar, March 26, 2018.

  10. 10.

    Kate McFarland, “Overview of Current Basic Income Related Experiments,” Basic Income News, October 19, 2017 2017; Loek F M Groot and Timo Verlaat, “The Rationale Behind the Utrecht Experiment,” (2016).

  11. 11.

    SEED, “A Guaranteed Income Demonstration,” Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration, https://www.stocktondemonstration.org/

  12. 12.

    Laura Colini, “The B-Mincome Project Journal N°1,” (Barcelona: The City of Barcelona, 2017).

  13. 13.

    McFarland .

  14. 14.

    British-Columbia-Government, “Researchers Explore the Potential of Basic Income in B.C.,” (Victoria: BC Gov News, 2018).

  15. 15.

    Recivitas.org; Eight.world

  16. 16.

    mein-grundeinkommen.de

  17. 17.

    Bootstrapsfilm.com

  18. 18.

    Van Parijs and Vanderborght, p. 145.

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Widerquist, K. (2018). Current, Planned, and Proposed Experiments, 2014–Present. In: A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens. Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03849-6_8

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