{"id":33144,"date":"2017-01-04T06:52:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T14:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/indian-government-to-endorse-universal-basic-income-as-way-forward-says-leading-ubi-advocate"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:26:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:26:24","slug":"indian-government-to-endorse-universal-basic-income-as-way-forward-says-leading-ubi-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/indian-government-to-endorse-universal-basic-income-as-way-forward-says-leading-ubi-advocate","title":{"rendered":"Indian government to endorse universal basic income \u2018as way forward\u2019, says leading UBI advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/indian-government-to-endorse-universal-basic-income-as-way-forward-says-leading-ubi-advocate.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>India is going to endorse a Universal Basic Income (UBI), according to a leading advocate of the system.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s largest democracy will release a report in January stating that UBI is \u201cbasically the way forward,\u201d according to Professor Guy Standing, who has worked on universal income pilot projects in India.<\/p>\n<p>If implemented, India would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/finland-universal-basic-income-ubi-citizens-560-euros-monthly-job-poverty-unemployment-a7492911.html\">join Finland in providing free money to citizens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/asia\/india-universal-basic-income-latest-ubi-government-endorse-guy-standing-finland-pilot-earth-network-a7508786.html?cmpid=facebook-post\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/asia\/india-universal...ebook-post<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is going to endorse a Universal Basic Income (UBI), according to a leading advocate of the system. The world\u2019s largest democracy will release a report in January stating that UBI is \u201cbasically the way forward,\u201d according to Professor Guy Standing, who has worked on universal income pilot projects in India. If implemented, India would [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59277,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33144\/revisions\/59277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}