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Saksham Khosla
Saksham Khosla is a research analyst at Carnegie India. His research focusses on the political economy of administrative, economic, and welfare reforms in India. Previously, he was a junior fellow in the South Asia programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. He holds bachelor’s degrees in politics and creative writing from Oberlin College.
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Can India make a universal basic income work?
According to the Economic Survey 2016-17, universal basic income may prove to be a more effective antipoverty intervention than India’s largest welfare schemes. Discussing the Survey’s proposal, Saksham Khosla contends that while it deserves praise for bringing substantial rigour to the UBI debate, thrusting the issue into the national spotlight, and prudently concluding that the time has not yet come for implementation; its central design features offer a weak foundation for implementing UBI.
