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  1. Apr 2020
    1. By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value

      This also means that there will need to be a correction for unequal exchange. It is not clear whether this correction would be applied both within-countries and between-countries.

      So, it might be worth reflecting on how both 'work' and 'value' are defined.

    1. why should the bulk of this fiscal space (such as it is) be claimed by UBI alone? There are many other urgent claims on public expenditure—education, health care, environmental protection and essential infrastructure, to name a few. Mobilizing 3.5 per cent of GDP for UBI is bound to take many years under any plausible script, not to speak of 10 per cent (if it is advisable at all).
  2. Apr 2017