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Part of the book series: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee ((BIG))

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The concept of a Basic Income (BI), or Citizen’s Income (CI), can pride itself on a long history and a large variety of analogous expressions (Van Trier, 1994): “universal grant,” “social dividend,” “citizen’s wage,” “social income,” etc. The common characteristic to all of these denominations is their allusion to a policy whose objective consists in the access guarantee to an unconditional monetary income for all people (or for the totality of a certain category of people) by the state.

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Vuolo, R.L. (2013). Introduction. In: Vuolo, R.L. (eds) Citizen’s Income and Welfare Regimes in Latin America. Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137077547_1

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