ABSTRACT
A Citizen’s Basic Income (CBI) as it is known in the UK, also known as a Basic Income Guarantee (US), a Guaranteed Annual Income (Canada), or more generally as a Universal Basic Income (UBI), has gained renewed interest cross-nationally in both academic and policy circles in recent decades. For example, a European organisation for the advocacy of a basic income (the Basic Income European Network) was launched in 1986, and changed its name to the Basic Income Earth Network in 2004 in order to better reflect its international scope. In the UK a CBI has been advocated by the non-partisan Citizen’s Income Trust as well as the Green Party as part of its 2015 election manifesto.
