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    A Minimum Income Guarantee amidst Joblessness & Vulnerability: A Design for Income Transfers post-Covid 19 and beyond

    Mehrotra, Santosh; Rajagopalan, Anjana; Kumar, Rakesh Ranjan | June 2020
    Abstract
    Amidst the bleak picture of increasing joblessness and indebtedness presented by the National Sample Survey’s employment surveys and debt surveys, a minimum standard of living for the nation’s poor seems to be under threat. In response to this, recent schemes inspired by the Universal Basic Income debates appeared to have been designed more for political considerations, and have glaring identification issues and have been exclusionary. Rather than adopting a quasi-UBI as suggested in the Economic Survey of 2017 and doing away with many existing developmental programmes, this paper makes a case for, and presents the design of, a much better method targeting of transfers as a supplement, keeping fiscal as well as labour-market outcomes in mind. The sudden exogenous shock of COVID-19 to the incomes of the poor has made the case of a minimum income guarantee (MIG) for the poor more urgent. Had a MIG already been in place by early 2020, it would only have required a ramping up of the transfers to protect the incomes of the poor.
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    Mehrotra, Santosh; Rajagopalan, Anjana; Kumar, Rakesh Ranjan. 2020. A Minimum Income Guarantee amidst Joblessness & Vulnerability: A Design for Income Transfers post-Covid 19 and beyond. © Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/12169.
    Keywords
    Good Governance
    Governance
    Corporate Governance Reform
    Governance Approach
    Governance Quality
    Public Sector Projects
    Public Sector Reform
    Political Leadership
    Political Power
    Institutional Framework
    Government
    Government accounting
    Social planning
    Social policy
    Social administration
    Social security
    Social services
    Social welfare
    Poverty
    Unemployment
    Universal Basic Income
    Government
    Institutional Framework
    Public Administration
    Business Ethics
    Political Leadership
    Public enterprises
    Public finance
    Income Guarantee
    Government
    Political obligation
    Public management
    Government accountability
    Transparency in government
    Political ethics
    Government spending policy
    Government services
    Democracy
    Local government
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    Rajagopalan, Anjana
    Kumar, Rakesh Ranjan
    Theme
    Governance
    Social Protection

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