This last quarter has seen almost unparalleled academic contributions to the global call for universal basic income guarantees.

SPII is proud to have been able to contribute three excellent papers during this period.

In partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, SPII produced a global overview of BIG pilots, to provide a quick snapshot of what worked where and why, under the lead authorship of Nkululeko Majozi. The paper specifically looks to the impact on gender and job creation of the pilots and is very instructive: so much so that calls for a South African pilot, we believe, really are redundant given the wealth of empirical knowledge that already exists ....