Politics of Basic Income Talk Series – Fabio Waltenberg on February 22, 2024: “Maricá’s Citizens Basic Income: Unconditional cash transfers paid in a municipal digital currency”

Fabio Waltenberg (Associate Professor, Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói, Brazil) is our guest in the Politics of Basic Income Talk Series!

Title: Maricá’s Citizens Basic Income: Unconditional cash transfers paid in a municipal digital currency

Time: 22.02.2024, 04:00-05:30 pm (UK).

Location: Zoom (Click here to join the meeting)

Abstract: We will talk about the Citizens’ Basic Income (Renda Básica de Cidadania), an unconditional income transfer scheme that benefits almost 50% of the 200,000 inhabitants of Maricá, Brazil. We will describe the evolution of the program and the singularity of the local currency in which transfers are paid (the mumbuca). Then we will provide an overview of preliminary evidence of its effects and outline our research agenda.

Bio

Fabio Waltenberg is Associate Professor of Economics at the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói, Brazil, and researcher at the Center for Studies on Inequality and Development (CEDE). He holds a PhD in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Over the last four years, he has coordinated the Brazilian team involved in evaluating the Citizens Basic Income program in Maricá. He is co-editor of the journal Basic Income Studies. His research focuses on economic analyses of the welfare state, with an emphasis on education and income guarantee policies.

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