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Nobel-Prize laureate Abhijit Banerjee on the world's largest UBI experiment

Nobel-Prize laureate Abhijit Banerjee on the world's largest UBI experiment

Released Thursday, 11th April 2024
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Nobel-Prize laureate Abhijit Banerjee on the world's largest UBI experiment

Nobel-Prize laureate Abhijit Banerjee on the world's largest UBI experiment

Nobel-Prize laureate Abhijit Banerjee on the world's largest UBI experiment

Nobel-Prize laureate Abhijit Banerjee on the world's largest UBI experiment

Thursday, 11th April 2024
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The world's largest Universal Basic Income trial is currently underway in Kenya. It involves 295 villages and more than 20,000 families. The trial has just reached the two-year mark and Nobel-Prize winning economist, Abhijit Banerjee, joins us to talk about its progress – both economic and social. Also, why it's counterproductive to talk about "screentime" and people being "addicted" to their phones; and speech writer, Lucinda Holdforth, who worries that we've supplanted old fashioned values that emphasised community responsibility with a new array of virtues that are all about personal wants and a focus on self.

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