Basic Income links to other sites

Basic Income Guarantee Australia (BIGA) was accepted by the General Assembly of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN)  as an affiliate member of the Basic Income Earth Network at its meeting in Cape Town on the 4th of November 2006.

• Basic Income Canada 
• Livable Income for everyone (LIFE)  is a Canadian organisation started in 2003 to promote the implementation of universal guaranteed livable income in every country in the world.
• BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network)  Formerly Basic Income European Network, BIEN is now global.
• CORI (Conference of Religious of Ireland, CORI Justice Commission) 
• The Citizens Income Trust, United Kingdom 
• Joan Bardina Studies Center 
• Papers on Universal Basic Income On Keith Rankin’s Page 
• Red Renta Básica Basic Income Network Spain 
• Red Argentina de Ingreso Ciudadano Argentina 
• Global Basic Income Foundation   Nederlands affiliation (New 2006)
• Germany Netzwerk Grundeinkommen 
• Netherlands Vereniging Basinkomen 
• SANE (South African New Economics Network) 
• UBINZ (Universal Basic Income New Zealand) 
• Universal Income Trust of Aotearoa NZ (New Zealand) 
• The U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network (The USBIG Network)  The USBIG site is developing a global outlook and publishing scholarly papers on the topic from around the world. It incorporates links to the published papers from the BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network) conferences at Geneva and Barcelona.
• The USBIG (US Basic Income Guarantee) Website now carry many important new Basic Income Publications, many also provided from BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network) The Publications sections may be reached for USBIG  direct and for BIEN.  For example a special issue of Rutgers Journal of Law and Public policy may be found here and at the journal's website http://www.rutgerspolicyjournal.org/  . The papers therein are historic in that they comprise the first international scholarly exchange between proponents of Basic Income and the Employment Guarantee. Several Australian authors are featured.
• New bepress Journal : Basic Income Studies Inaugral Issue http://www.bepress.com/bis 
  
  The Berkeley Electronic Press, together with editors Rafael Pinilla-Pallejà (Ministry of Public Affairs, Spain), Jurgen De Wispelaere (Trinity College Dublin), and Karl Widerquist (University of Oxford), is very pleased to announce the launch of Basic Income Studies, the first peer-reviewed journal devoted to basic income and related issues of poverty relief and universal welfare. An exciting new venture supported by major international networks of scholars, policy makers, and activists, Basic Income Studies is the only forum for scholarly research on this leading edge movement in contemporary social policy. Articles discuss the design and implementation of basic income schemes, and address the theory and practice of universal welfare in clear, non-technical language that engages the wider policy community.
  
  Basic Income Studies benefits from an editorial board at the forefront of research in poverty and employment, welfare reform, political theory, political economy, and public policy. Editors come from leading universities and government agencies worldwide, including the University of Amsterdam, University of Oxford, Columbia University, the University of Buenos Aires, UCLA, the London School of Economics, the Catholic University of Louvain, Harvard University, and Trinity College Dublin.
  
  Basic Income Studies launches its inaugural issue with a retrospective on "A Capitalist Road to Communism," the article that put basic income firmly on the map in academic and policy circles when it was first published in 1986. The original article is reprinted with a set of six new comments and a specially written reply by the authors, Robert van der Veen and Philippe Van Parijs.
  
  Inaugural Issue: Volume 1, Issue 1 (2006)
  Visit http://www.bepress.com/bis  or click on the Basic Income Studies Journal below for the full list of papers in the inaugral issue #1 and the list of Editors and Advisory Board Members for the peer reviewed Basic Income Studies Journal (PDF, 33KB)
  
  

Other Websites of Interest

• Guy Standing's Website with Papers on Basic Income http://www.guystanding.com 
• After the historic 11th Basic Income Earth Network Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, which included Australia's BIGA website acceptance as a BIEN international affiliate, the BIEN Newsflash 42 November 2006 (PDF, 76KB) carries a report on the proceedings, including a summation by Philippe Van Parijs and a link to the moving short video presentation made to the conference by Nobel Laureate BISHOP DESMOND TUTU  as well as links to the on-line papers presented.
• The Government of the Republic of Ireland has published a Green Paper  containing a proposal for a Basic Income.
• The Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) at The University of Newcastle (NSW) http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee  offer strong support for full employment and job guarantee strategies.
• The State of Alaska already has Basic Income system in operation. All citizens of Alaska share in an income distribution originally based on oil revenue profits. Today a percentage of royalties from all State owned assets are invested in the Permanent Fund as a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds, the annual earnings from which are distributed once per year to all residents who indicate an intention to remain in Alaska. The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation  Board of Trustees oversees the program. An interesting recent paper on the Alaskan Basic Income may be found at http://www.etes.ucl.ac.be/BIENbackup/conference2002/papers/Goldsmith.doc