PERMANENT FUND DIVIDEND IN ALASKA
"The Alaska Dividend, properly called the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD), is the closest thing to a basic income guarantee that exists in the world today. It is a small, yearly dividend, financed indirectly from oil revenues, paid by the state government to every citizen who lives in Alaska - including all men, women, and children."
For more, see USBIG - About the Alaska Dividend
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
"Y Combinator will give thousands of people across two U.S. states cash handouts to branch out its trial of basic income."
"1,000 will receive $1,000 per month for up to five years, while 2,000 will receive $50 a month for comparison."
For more, see cnbc - Silicon Valley giant Y Combinator to give people varied amounts of cash in latest basic income trial
CANADIAN PROVINCE TRIALS BASIC INCOME
"The basic income payments have boosted his income by almost 60 per cent and have allowed him to make plans to visit his family for Christmas for the first time in years. He has also been able to buy healthier food, see a dentist and look into taking an educational course to help him find work."
For more, see INDEPENDENT - Canadian province trials basic income for thousands of residents
FINLAND BASIC INCOME
"His liberation came in the lack of conditions attached to the money. If they so wish, Finns on UBI can bank the cash and do nothing else. But, in Järvinen’s case at least, the sum has removed the fear of utter destitution, freeing him to do work he finds meaningful."
For more, see The Guardian - A basic income for everyone? Yes, Finland shows it really can work
ITALY BASIC INCOME PILOT
"Filippo Nogarin, the mayor of the Italian coastal city of Livorno who launched an initiative to provide a guaranteed basic income to the city's 100 poorest families in June 2016, is poised to extend the program in the beginning of 2017. A member of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S), Nogarin was elected in 2014.
For more, see BIEN - Italy: Basic Income Pilot launched in Italian Coastal City
BARCELONA, SPAIN BASIC MINIMUM INCOME
"In October 2017, the city of Barcelona Spain, will launch a two-year experiment testing several variants of a guaranteed income and active policies to reduce poverty rates. The project has been called B-MINCOME in reference to the Canadian province of Manitoba's Mincome experiment, a guaranteed annual income trial conducted in the late 1970s.
For more, see BIEN - Barcelona, Spain: Design of Minimum Income Experiment Finalized
INDIA'S BASIC INCOME GRANTS
"We have much more analysis to do, but as the conference showed the story is fairly clear. Before mentioning a few findings, note that contrary to some assertions, a majority did not prefer subsidies (covering rice, wheat, kerosene and sugar), and as a result of the experience of basic incomes more came to prefer cash to subsidies. Eleven results stand out."
For more, see Global Dialogue - India's Experiment in Basic Income Grants
MACAU 2017 WEALTH PARTAKING SCHEME (WPS)
"The Government of Macau has completed the most recent distribution of its annual wealth dividend, providing most residents of the city with an unconditional cash grant of about US$1,200."
For more, see Basic Income - Over 543,000 receive unconditional cash grants under 2017 Wealth Partaking Scheme
PHILIPPINES CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER (4ps)
"The conditional cash transfer (CCT) program locally known as Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program, or 4Ps is a government program that provides conditional cash grants to the poorest of the poor in the Philippines. The program aims to break the cycle of poverty by keeping children aged 0-18 healthy and in school, so they can have a better future."
For more, see The World Bank - FAQs about the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps)
IRAN INTRODUCED A BASIC INCOME SCHEME
"Published by the economists Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Mohammad H.Mostafavi-Dehjooei, the paper finds no evidence to support the idea that people receiving cash transfers take themselves out of the labor force. Some workers even expanded their hours, the report found.
Fore more, see World Economic Forum - Iran introduced a basic income scheme, and something strange happen
UGANDA: TWO-YEAR BASIC INCOME PILOT
"Eight, a charitable organization based in Belgium, is preparing to run a basic income pilot in Uganda. The two-year pilot is set to launch in January 2017, and will form the basis for a documentary. It will involve the distribution of unconditional cash transfers to all residents of an undisclosed village of 50 households.
Fore more, see BIEN - Uganda: Two-year basic income pilot set to launch in 2017
KENYA'S UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME
