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Comment by Pranab Bardhan
Berkeley Economics Professor
India should consider replacing inefficient subsidies with a basic monthly income for all citizens
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(2016)
2y ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
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Unable to directly verify the source_url (livemint.com) — WebFetch returns "Claude Code is unable to fetch from www.livemint.com". Archive.org (web.archive.org) is also blocked for fetching. Attempted to find a more recent (2025/2026) replacement quote via Pranab Bardhan's May 2025 substack post "Universal Basic Income in the World of AI?" but substack returned 403, and Project Syndicate also 403. Web searches confirm Bardhan has been a long-standing advocate (since ~2011) of replacing inefficient Indian subsidies with a universal/basic income — so the "for" vote on statement "Implement a universal basic income" aligns with his well-documented position, and the author attribution is plausible. The URL slug itself ("Subsidies-must-give-way-to-a-universal-basic-income-Pranab") strongly suggests the article matches the quote's meaning, but without being able to load the page I cannot confirm the exact wording. Marking ai_unverifiable due to source access restrictions; year (2016) could not be refreshed because accessible 2025 primary sources were also blocked.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 10d ago
replying to Pranab Bardhan