The Right to existence in developing countries : basic income in East Timor
Casassas, David (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Raventós, Daniel (Universitat de Barcelona)
Wark, Julie

Date:	2010
Abstract:	In this article we consider the potential of a Basic Income (BI) as a mechanism for promoting well-integrated and autonomous social and productive development in newly independent Democratic Republic of East Timor, and for expanding the freedom of this country's population that is struggling to throw off the bitter legacy of colonial and postcolonial dispossession and violence. We briefly outline the main social and economic problems faced by the new Democratic Republic of East Timor. Then we argue that a BI financed by oil and natural gas revenues could play a major role in combating these problems.
Grants:	Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CSO2009-09890 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación FFI2009-10941
Rights:	Tots els drets reservats.
Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Development ; Domestic economy ; Financing models ; Freedom ; Natural resources
Published in:	Basic income studies, Vol. 5 Núm. 1 (Abril 2010) , ISSN 1932-0183

DOI: 10.2202/1932-0183.1141

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