Comment: Over the past year, debate over universal basic income has intensified in New Zealand. The Opportunity party has proposed a national ‘citizen’s income’ funded through a land value tax to address concerns about housing affordability, rising living costs and widening wealth inequality.
As New Zealand debates this proposal ahead of the general election, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, a micro-state in the Pacific Ocean, has launched its own nationwide universal basic income. Its framework and early implementation experience provide a timely opportunity to explore what a national basic income looks like in practice.
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