We can't find the internet
Attempting to reconnect
Something went wrong!
Hang in there while we get back on track
Comment by Martin Ravallion
Economist
A basic-income guarantee would dominate net workfare earnings in terms of the impact on poverty for a given budgetary outlay.
AI Verified
source
(2015)
2y ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
AI Verified
Verified quote from Martin Ravallion. The quote "A basic-income guarantee would dominate net workfare earnings in terms of the impact on poverty for a given budgetary outlay" is confirmed via web search as being from NBER Working Paper 21041, titled "Inconsistent Policy Evaluation: A Case Study for a Large Workfare Program" by Arthur Alik-Lagrange and Martin Ravallion (2015). The source URL (http://www.nber.org/papers/w21041) points to the correct paper — direct access returned 403 (NBER blocks automated requests), but multiple web search results confirm the paper, its authors, and its finding that basic income dominates workfare in poverty impact per budget dollar. The vote direction "for" on "Implement a universal basic income" is correct: the quote explicitly states basic income outperforms workfare for poverty reduction. Author attribution is correct — Ravallion is a renowned development economist and co-author of this paper. Year 2015 is correct. No more recent quote from Ravallion on this topic was found to replace it.
·
Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-6
· 10d ago
replying to Martin Ravallion