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Put carbon dividend at the core of post-COVID reboot Jan 21, 2021

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This is a 3-part podcast to connect the dots between carbon price-and-dividend and universal basic income. We spot the emerging ideas and ask how we should be equity-weighting green policies.
PART 1: tackles carbon price-and-dividend
· Carbon tax and its (much feared) regressive aspects.
· Ways to equity-weight carbon tax and the role of carbon dividends.
PART 2: links carbon dividend to universal basic income
· Use of carbon dividends as universal basic income.
· Key pitfalls of solely relying on carbon dividends to fund substantive and sustained basic income scheme.
· Ideas for hybrid financing basic income – carbon dividends and beyond.
PART 3: on knowledge and policy
· Knowledge that needs amplification in public debates on carbon price-and-dividend and inclusive reset.
· Emerging policy ideas that decision makers need to pay closer attention to.
The expert is Anders Fremstad, Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Colorado State University. His expertise is in the political economy of the environment, especially the sharing economy and the climate crisis. Anders has written on the distributional impact of carbon pricing policies, carbon dividends, and the connections between the latter with universal basic income.
The host is John Crowley, UNESCO's Chief of Research, Policy and Foresight.

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Basic Income – deciphering the promises and the data Oct 27, 2020

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This is a 3-part podcast on universal basic income and its potential to cushion the effects of the COVID-19 crisis. The talk is concrete:
· Does basic income actually hold the promise of greater equity in this reset and what is the broader policy mix we need to be thinking about;
· Why should carbon tax be entertained as a financing option and what are the other sources that could fund to-scale/long-term basic income schemes; and
· How solid is the data we hold on basic income and what signals should policy makers be listening to.
The expert is Ioana Marinescu, Assistant Professor in the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania and faculty research fellow at the US National Bureau of Economic Research. Her expertise is in universal basic income, unemployment insurance, and the politics of carbon tax, all of which are key to this debate.
The host is John Crowley, UNESCO's Chief of Research, Policy and Foresight.

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Close social protection gaps to reset equitably after COVID-19 Sep 16, 2020

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This episode is concerned with social protection and its place in the post-COVID reset.
We dissect this into issues of:
· Social protection gaps – how these need fixing to counter the immediate effects of the crisis, as well as to set countries on a more inclusive pattern in the long run;
· Women during the crisis – how they fell through the cracks and what is the place of gender in recovery policies;
· Digital and informal economy – how COVID-19 sped up the discussion on the social protection for such; and
· Universal basic income – is it feasible and/or desirable in this recovery?
The expert today is Monika Queisser, OECD’s Head of Social Policy, and is an expert on pension reform within the organization.
The host is John Crowley, UNESCO's Chief of Research, Policy and Foresight.

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Universal Basic Income and beyond — what are our options for recovery Jun 03, 2020

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In this podcast we connect the dots between inequality, COVID-19, and inclusive recovery. We discuss this with Balázs Horvath, Chief Economist for UNDP in Asia and the Pacific.
This is a forward-looking conversation concerned with policy shifts that need to happen for such a recovery to be possible. Key points covered are:

What policy pathways are likely to bring about a more equitable recovery?;
If/how should Universal Basic Income be built into the COVID-19 recovery packages? Can we afford it?;
What policy experiments and data are there to guide us?; and
What forms of inequalities and groups we should particularly worry about now – both on the research and on the policy side?

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Inequality and climate change: how to untangle the injustice Mar 25, 2020

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In this podcast we discuss inequality and climate change with Professor Tahseen Jafry, Director of the Centre for Climate Justice at Glasgow Caledonian University. Tune it to untangle the triple injustice of climate change.

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Inequalities and transformative knowledge Mar 30, 2017

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The Inclusive Development Agenda Mar 30, 2017

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This podcast discusses the context of inclusive development and introduces the Inclusive Policy Markers. We explore how the Inclusive Policy Markers and the work of the Inclusive Policy Lab can help further the inclusive development agenda.

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Design thinking for social inclusion Feb 04, 2017

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In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Jocelyn Wyatt, social innovation lead at the award-winning consultancy IDEO, describes her organization’s efforts in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to use design thinking, a problem-solving system that is grounded in a client’s or costumer’s needs.

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