{"id":12519,"date":"2016-06-14T08:20:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T08:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=12519"},"modified":"2016-06-14T08:20:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T08:20:33","slug":"swiss-basic-income-ubi-proposal-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/swiss-basic-income-ubi-proposal-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss basic income (UBI) proposal in referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Question: Who is the author of the book named \u201cVoting for Freedom: The 2016 Swiss Referendum on Basic Income: A Milestone in the Advancement of Democracy\u201d?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Daniel Hani and Philip Kovce<br \/>\n(b) Samuel Huntington<br \/>\n(c) Roger Eatwell<br \/>\n(d) Matthew Smith<br \/>\n<strong>Ans.(a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>On 5thJune 2016 Switzerland became the first country in the world to hold a referendum on Unconditional Basic Income (UBI).<\/li>\n<li>The amount to be paid was not determined before the vote, but the political-group behind the initiative suggested paying 2500 US dollars a month to each adult and 640 US dollars for each child.<\/li>\n<li>Out of the total votes polled 76.9 percent were against the plan, while only 23.1 percent were in favour of it.<\/li>\n<li>The proposal for providing unconditional basic income was raised in the backdrop of decreasing job opportunities, increasing automation at workplace and growing uncertainties in the market caused by economic downturn.<\/li>\n<li>Supporters argued that providing such income would assist people in a world where good jobs with steady salaries are becoming harder to find.<\/li>\n<li>While the government opposed the proposal claiming it would lead to sky-high costs, people quitting their jobs in large number and burden on the economy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-36454060\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-36454060<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jun\/05\/swiss-vote-give-basic-income-every-adult-child-marxist-dream\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jun\/05\/swiss-vote-give-basic-income-every-adult-child-marxist-dream<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/06\/world\/europe\/switzerland-swiss-vote-basic-income.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/06\/world\/europe\/switzerland-swiss-vote-basic-income.html?_r=0<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.basicincome2016.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.basicincome2016.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who is the author of the book named \u201cVoting for Freedom: The 2016 Swiss Referendum on Basic Income: A Milestone in the Advancement of Democracy\u201d? (a) Daniel Hani and Philip Kovce (b) Samuel Huntington (c) Roger Eatwell (d) Matthew Smith Ans.(a) Related facts: On 5thJune 2016 Switzerland became the first country in the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}