Why a Basic Income will be Essential to Revive the Ukrainian Economy
15 June, 18:00 (GMT +3)
- Basic income: is it for everybody or for those who went destitute because of the war?
- Monthly amount that would provide basic needs.
- Basic income implementation: Ukrainian experience vs experience of Switzerland, Finland or Germany.
- Basic income in Ukraine: risks and reservations.
Meeting Moderator: Dr. Vyacheslav Pokotylo, Professor at MIM Business School
Dr. Guy Standing
A labour economist and Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London. He previously held chairs at SOAS and the universities of Bath (UK) and Monash (Australia).
These followed a long career at the International Labour Organization where he was Director of its Socio-Economic Security Programme.
Professor Standing is a founder and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an international NGO promoting basic income as a right.
His most recent books include Battling Eight Giants: Basic Income Now (2020); Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth (2019); Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen (2017); The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay (2016; third edition 2021); Basic Income: A Transformative Policy for India (2015); A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (2014); and The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011; fourth edition 2021).
