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Yes, Universal Basic Income. No, Targeted Income Schemes.
Why one of the earliest proponents of UBI is against targeting income support to only the poor, farmers, or only the rural sector.
31 Jan 2019, 11:38 PM IST i

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A woman holds the money she has received from a microfinance company, in Sadasivpet, Telangana. (Photographer: Adeel Halim/Bloomberg)
The Indian National Congress has announced a guaranteed minimum income for every poor person in India along with a national loan waiver scheme for farmers. The waiver is a singularly bad idea, whether for loans to farmers or to corporate magnates. But the former is an idea worth discussing.

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