Are the UN Sustainable Development Goals a Valuable Platform for Advancing a Basic Income? A Critical Historical Studies Account

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Basic Income Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-05 DOI:10.1515/bis-2022-0026

Tracy A. Smith-Carrier, Rana Van Tuyl

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Abstract

United Nations (UN) leaders suggest that the world is not on track to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The purpose of this paper is to explore whether the SDGs provide a valuable platform to call for a basic income (BI) globally. Adopting a critical historical studies approach, the article traces the evolution of ‘development’, including the UN decades of development, the Millennium Development Goals, and the SDGs. It subsequently describes the structural adjustment and poverty reduction efforts by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, and then outlines why the SDG framework may be helpful in advancing a BI. We argue that as climate-related disasters increase, a BI will be vital in providing a modicum of security in an increasingly unstable world. Calls for BI must be anchored to a broader change agenda that recognizes the causes of poverty and income inequality, and seeks their dismantling and redress.

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联合国可持续发展目标是推进基本收入的宝贵平台吗？批判性历史研究

联合国 (UN) 领导人表示，世界无法如期在 2030 年前实现可持续发展目标 (SDGs)。本文旨在探讨可持续发展目标是否为呼吁全球实现基本收入（BI）提供了一个有价值的平台。文章采用批判性历史研究方法，追溯了 "发展 "的演变，包括联合国发展十年、千年发展目标和可持续发展目标。文章随后描述了世界银行和国际货币基金组织的结构调整和减贫努力，然后概述了可持续发展目标框架为何有助于推进基本福利。我们认为，随着与气候有关的灾害的增加，在一个日益不稳定的世界中，基本倡议对于提供些许安全至关重要。对基准收益的呼吁必须立足于更广泛的变革议程，承认贫困和收入不平等的根源，并寻求消除和纠正这些根源。

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Basic Income Studies ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

2.40

自引率

18.20%

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期刊介绍： Basic income is a universal income grant available to every citizen without means test or work requirement. Academic discussion of basic income and related policies has been growing in the fields of economics, philosophy, political science, sociology, and public policy over the last few decades — with dozens of journal articles published each year, and basic income constituting the subject of more than 30 books in the last 10 years. In addition, the political discussion of basic income has been expanding through social organizations, NGOs and other advocacy groups. Internationally, recent years have witnessed the endorsement of basic income by grassroots movements as well as government officials in developing countries such as Brazil or South-Africa. As the community of people working on this issue has been expanding all over the world, incorporating grassroots activists, high profile academics — including several Nobel Prize winners in economics — and policymakers, the amount of high quality research on this topic has increased considerably. In the light of such extensive scholarship on this topic, the need to coordinate research efforts through a journal specifically devoted to basic income and cognate policies became pressing. Basic Income Studies (BIS) is the first academic journal to focus specifically on basic income and cognate policies.