Introduction
Today’s column concludes the discussion on the fourth and final modeled driver and its metrics, which I believe undergirds any serious appraisal of the viability or affordability of a Guyana Universal Basic Income, UBI, mechanism, the Buxton Proposal.
Introduction
This week’s column addresses the fourth and final driver along with its modeled metrics; namely, operational cost of oil production share ratios in Guyana.
Introduction
Today’s column considers the third modeled driver and metrics related to the affordability of the Buxton Proposal; Government Take or the average effective tax rate, AETR, yielded by the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) regime governing Guyana’s oil exploration, development and production.
Introduction
Last week’s column concluded my consideration of the first of four modelled drivers [that is, Guyana’s oil and gas resources and reserves] and their related metrics, as displayed in the analytical framework I am using here [see January 28, 2023 column.]
Introduction
Today’s column interrogates, rather summarily, the key crude oil metrics linked to Guyana, which within the space of four years, has been already hailed as the Americas’ fastest rising Petrostate.
Introduction
Today’s column continues my description of the nitty-gritty features or the key nuts and bolts of the universal basic income [UBI] mechanism, the Buxton Proposal, which I have long advocated for Guyana as the most effective means of eradicating its persistent poverty.
Introduction
In today’s column I treat with 1] the operationalizing, scheduling and execution of the Buxton Proposal and 2] start my coverage of the Whys and Wherefores of cash transfers.
Introduction, proximate origin
Some bizarre motives have been attributed to me for naming the suggested UBI mechanism for eradicating persistent poverty in Guyana the Buxton Proposal.
Introduction
Today’s column engages the IMF’s recent publication on Universal Basic Income, UBI schemes as a direct complement to last week’s, which engaged the World Bank study on the same topic.
Introduction
Today’s column engages the fifth of the six listed social protection mechanisms [state employment] that are widely utilized to address persistent poverty in emerging oil-rich economies.
Introduction
Back in early September this year I received a circular appeal from the Tri-continental Research Institute that was sent to its network of fellow Researchers in the Global South.
Introduction
Today’s column introduces multi-dimensional measures of poverty in Guyana. I share the view that the best starting point for this topic, is through an introduction of the United Nations Human Development Report, UN, HDR and its Index HDI
As the UNDP states, the HDI is a “summary measure for assessing long-term progress in three basic dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge and a decent standard of living.
Introduction
Last week’s column illustrated that for most of the 2000s Guyana’s poverty theorizing as well as its policy prescriptions have been constructed on the basis of data derived from headcount or headcount–related survey studies.This