Basic Income European Network

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TENTH CONGRESS OF THE BASIC INCOME EUROPEAN NETWORK
"The Right to a Basic Income: Egalitarian Democracy"
Barcelona (Spain), 19-20 September 2004


CONGRESS PROGRAMME
(and related events)

The Congress will be held within the framework of the Universal Forum of Cultures, as part of the Dialogue on "Human Rights, Emerging Needs and New Commitments" organised by Catalonia's Institute of Human Rights (18-21 September 2004). The participation fee will cover access to all activities organised during these four days as part of this "Dialogue" and to those developed at the site of the Forum of Cultures.


PROGRAMME

PREVIOUS EVENTS INCLUDED IN THE DIALOGUE ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Saturday, September 18th:

09:30 - 10:30 Opening Plenary Session of the Dialogue: “Present and Future of Human Rights: Updating and Developing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the New Millennium”

11:00 - 13:00 Second Plenary Session of the Dialogue: “The Fight for Human Rights: A Permanent Struggle for a Just World”

15:00 - 18:00 Third Plenary Session of the Dialogue: “Dialogues on the Future of Human Rights and the Progress of Human Civilization”

21:00 Reception and dinner for all the participants in the Dialogue on Human Rights (including all participants in BIEN Congress)



Sunday, September 19th:

9:00-11:00: Fourth Plenary Session of the Dialogue: “Freedom, Equality and Fraternity: New Contexts, New Commitments”

11:30-12:00 Coffe-break


BIEN CONGRESS

11:30-12:10 Institutional presentation

• Daniel Raventós, president of Red Renta Básica and University of Barcelona.
• Guy Standing, co-chair of BIEN and ILO, Geneva
• Official welcoming by Anna Simó, Minister for Social Welfare, Catalan Government.

12:10-14:00: Opening plenary session: "The Basic Challenges in the Justification of Basic Income"

12:10-13:05: Exchange 1: "Right to Basic Income and Duty of Reciprocity"
• Chair: Philippe Van Parijs, secretary of BIEN and Chaire Hoover, Université Catholique de Louvain
• Stuart White, Jesus College, Oxford University
• Angelika Krebs, Philosophisches Seminar, Basel

13:05-14:00: Exchange 2: "Basic Income, Post-Productivism, and the Family-Friendly Welfare State"
• Chair: Guy Standing, co-chair of BIEN and ILO, Geneva
• Gosta Esping-Andersen, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
• Robert Van der Veen, Amsterdam School of Social Research, University of Amsterdam

14:00-15:30: Lunch

15:30-17:00: Parallel session 1.1. Basic Income and Democratic Republicanism (I)

• Coordinators & chairs: David Casassas & Daniel Raventós (Universitat de Barcelona)
• Antoni Domènech, University of Barcelona
“Basic Income and the Present Threats to Democracy”
• Eri Noguchi and Michael A. Lewis, Columbia University and Stony Brook University
“Basic Income: A Basic Condition of a Better Society”
• Irkus Larrinaga San Felices, Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona
“Basic Income and the Requirement of Impartiality in Deliberative Processes”
• Karl Widerquist, Oxford University
“Freedom as the Power to Say No”

15:30-17:00: Parallel session 2.1. Basic Income and the Right to Work

• Coordinator: Philip Harvey (Rutgers School for Law, Candem, USA)
• Chair: Philippe Van Parijs (Secretary of BIEN and Université Catholique de Louvain)
• Philip Harvey, Rutgers School for Law, Camden, USA
“A Comparative Assessment of Basic Income Proposals and Proposals to Secure the
Right to Work and Income Support”
• Martin Watts & William Mitchell, University of Newcastle , Australia.
“A Comparison of the Macroeconomic Consequences of Basic Income and Job
Guarantee Schemes”
• Guy Standing, International Labour Office
“Why Basic Income is Needed for a Right to Work”
• José A. Noguera, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
“¿Citizens or Workers? Basic Income vs. Activation Policies”

15:30-17:00: Parallel session 3.1. Innovative and Sustainable Financing for Basic Income (I)

• Coordinator: Gianluca Busilacchi (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)
• Chair: Eduardo Suplicy (Federal Senator of Brazil)
• Walter Van Trier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
“Does it matter how one finances a basic income and why? An introductory note”
• Gianluca Busilacchi, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy.
“Two Problems, One Solution: The Earth Basic Income”

• Jeffrey J. Smith, President of the Geonomy Society of Portland
“Can Rents Fund an Extra Income for Everyone?”
• Charles Bazlinton, Surveyor, Hants, UK, and author of The Free Lunch
“The Dangers of a Basic Income Without Land Value Taxation”
• Malcom Green, Author of Cosmic Accounting, Australia
“Cosmic Accounting: A New Energy Economic System of Basic Income”

15:30-17:00: Parallel session 4.1. Basic Income as a Policy to Fight Child Labour

• Coordinator & Chair: Eduardo Calderón (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain)
• Maria Núbia Alves Cruz, Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Ada Ávila Assunção, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
“When Income Transfer is Not Able to Eradicate the Practice of Working in Pernicious
Environments. A Case Study of the Bolsa Escola Program”
• Maria Ozanira da Silva e Silva, Universide Federal do Maranhão, Brazil
“From a Minimum Income to a Citizenship Income: the Brazilian Experiences”
• Elenise Scherer, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil
“Programme on Elimination of Child Labour in Brazil: Reinforcing Poverty and Denying Human Rights”
• Araceli Brizzio de la Hoz, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico
“Child Labour, a Contemporary Form of Slavery”

17:00-17:30: Coffe-break

17:30-19:00: Parallel session 1.2. Basic Income and Democratic Republicanism (II)

• Coordinators: David Casassas & Daniel Raventós (Universitat de Barcelona)
• Chair: Jordi Mundó (Universitat de Barcelona)
• María Julia Bertomeu, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires
“Property and Basic Income”
• Simon Eli Birnbaum, Stockholm University
“Real Freedom and the Challenge of Structural Subordination”
• Julieta Magdalena Elgarte, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires
“Non-domination, Real Freedom and Basic Income”
• Hans Harms, Doctor in Sociology
“Precariousity versus Flexicurity”

17:30-19:00: Parallel session 2.2. After Workfare. A Political Future for Basic Income?

• Coordinator & Chair: Yannick Vanderborght (Université Catholique de Louvain)
• Joel F. Handler , UCLA Law School, USA
“The False Promise of Workfare: Another Reason for Basic Income Guarantee”
• Jørn Loftager, Aarhurs Universitet, Denmark
“Three Third Ways”
• Erik Christensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
“Welfare Discourses in Denmark Seen in a Basic Income Perspective”
• Review, by Desmond King, Oxford University, UK

17:30-19:00: Parallel session 3.2. Innovative and Sustainable Financing for Basic Income (II)

• Coordinator & Chair: Gianluca Busilacchi (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)

• Myron J. Frankman , McGill University, Canada
“Ample room at the Top: Financing a Basic Income”
• Yoland Bresson, Université de Paris XII, France
“A Plan for the Introduction of a Basic Income in France”
• Jean Pierre Mon, Groupe de Recherches sur l’Economie Distributive
“Social Money for Financing Basic Income”
• Bruno Moser, Independent consultant, Hanoi, and former Assistant City Controler of Philadelphia
“Using Smart Fiscal Tools to Finance Basic Income: the Case of Philadelphia”

17:30-19:00: Parallel session 4.2. Basic Income as a Policy to Fight Child Poverty

• Coordinator: Eduardo Calderón (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain)
• Chair: Xavier Bonal (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain)
• Eduardo Calderon & Óscar Valiente , Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
Background paper: “Basic Income as a Policy to Fight Child Poverty”
• Maria Núbia Alves Cruz, Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Ada Ávila Assunção, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
“When Income Transfer Guarantees the Presence of Children in School However Followed by the Practice of Child Labour. The Case of Belo Horizonte, Brazil”
• Horacio Levy (& others), Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
“Child Poverty and Family Assistance in Southern Europe”
• Eliane Quaresma Caldeira de Araújo, Minas Gerais, Brazil
“Boys and Girls Exploited in Work”


Monday, September 20th:

9:30-11:00: Parallel session 1.3. New Issues, New Exclusions

• Chair: Guy Standing (International Labour Office, Geneva)
• Michael Howard, University of Maine, USA
“Basic Income and Migration Policy: A Moral Dilemma?”
• Luis Bellvis, Universidad de Valencia
“Basic Income, Information Society and the Info-Poors”
• Nicoli Nattrass, University of Cape Town
“The Challenge for Basic Income Posed by AIDS: Why an Incremental Approach Is
Inadequate in South Africa”
• Jose Luis Rey Pérez, Universidad P. Comillas, Madrid.
“A New Gender Perspective for Basic Income?”
• Manfred Fuellsack, Universität Wien
“BI as a ‘Medium’? An “Un-ethical” Approach to the BI Debate”

9:30-11:00: Parallel session 2.3. Basic Income and Work Incentives

• Chair: Francisco Ramos (UOC University and Red Renta Básica, Spain)
• François Blais, Laval University, Canada
“Labor Incentive for the Disabled. Can Basic Income Be an Alternative?”
• Ilkka Virjo, University of Tampere, Finland
“Does Minimum Income Have Negative Incentive Effects on the Young?”
• Felicia Kornbluh, Department of History, Duke University, USA
“If the Goods have Ceased to Be Urgent, Where Is the Fraud? The Work Ethic in the History of the Basic Income in the U.S.”

• Christian Brütsch, Universität Zürich, Switzwerland
“From ‘Decent Work’ to Decent Lives?”
• Jaione Mondragón & Amaia Izaola, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
“The Making of the Programmes Against Social Exclusion in the Basque Country: From Cash Benefits to Overcoming Job Insertion”

9:30-11:00: Parallel session 3.3. From Aspiration to Policy Implementation: Introducing a Basic Income System Category by Category

• Coordinator: Sean J. Healy (Director of CORI Justice Commision, Ireland)
• Chair: John Baker (Chair of BIEN-Ireland)
• Charles M.A. Clark, St. John’s University, New York
“How to Support the Family Farm Without Impoverishing Third World farmers”
• Brigid Reynolds and Sean Healy, Directors of CORI Justice Commision, Dublin
“Introducing a Basic Income System Category by Category in Ireland”
• Annie Miller, Chair of the Citizens Income Trust, UK
“Introducing a Basic Income System Category by Category in the UK”
• Rafael Pinilla, Economist, 1st Vicepresident of Basic Income Spanish Network
Luis Sanzo, Sociologist, Member of the Executive Committee of Basic Income Spanish Network
“Introducing a Basic Income System in Spain - Feasibility and Cost ”

9:30-11:00: Parallel session 4.3. The Prospects for Basic Income in Latin America

• Chair: Rubén Lo Vuolo (CIEPP, Buenos Aires)
• Lena Lavinas, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Exceptionality and Paradox: Basic Income and Minimum Income Schemes in Brazil”
• Cláudio da Rocha Roquete, Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome, Secretaria de Renda de Cidadania, Brazil
“Perspectives for Basic Income in Brazil”
• Jorge Iván Bula & Diego F. Hernández, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
“Moving Away from Conditioned Subsidy Towards Universal Basic Income”
• Reinaldo Nobre Pontes, Universidade da Amazônia, Brazil
“The Brazilian Antipoverty Policies: An Analysis on the Concepts of Inequality, Poverty and Citizenship; Changes in the 1990s”
• Clóvis Zimmermann, Foodfirst Information Action Network and University of Heidelberg, Germany
“Basic Food Income in Low Income Countries”

11:00-11:30: Coffe-break

11:30-13:00: Parallel session 1.4. Impacts of Basic Income: Simulations and Experiments

• Chair: Rafael Pinilla (1st Vicepresident of Red Renta Básica, Spain)
• Loek Groot, Netherlands’ Institute for the Social Sciences
Robert J. Van der Veen, University of Amsterdam
“Why to Launch a Basic Income Experiment”
• Jordi Arcarons, Samuel Calonge, Daniel Raventós, Universidad de Barcelona José A. Noguera, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
“The Financial Feasibility and Redistributive Impact of a Basic Income in Catalonia”
• Magda Mercader Prats, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
“Redistributive Impact of a Partial Basic Income in Spain: A Microsimulation Assessment with EspaSim”

• Andreas Bergh, Lund University, Sweden
“Can Basic Income be Combined with Positively Income Related Social Insurance?”
• Axel Marx & Hans Peeters, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
“Win for Life. What, If Anything, Happens After the Introduction of a Basic Income?”

11:30-13:00: Parallel session 2.4. The Political Feasibility of Basic Income in Different Countries

• Chair: Guy Standing (Co-chair of BIEN and International Labour Office, Geneva)
• Jürgen de Wispelaere, University College, Dublin
Lindsay Stirton, University of East Anglia, UK
“The Administration of Universal Welfare”
• Jeremy Seekings , University of Cape Town
“Prospects for Basic Income in Developing Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Welfare Regimes in the South”
• Ayse Bugra & Caglar Keyder, Bogazici University, Turkey
“Arguing for Basic Income in Turkey: Main Challenges”
• Virgilio Marcal, Advisor for the Presidency of East Timor on Local and Regional Affairs
“Basic Income as a Measure for Post-Conflict Situations: The Case of East Timor”
• Jens-Eberhard Jahn, Freiberg/Leipzig
“Problems of a Programmatic UBI Debate Within the German Party of Democratic
Socialism ”

11:30-13:00: Parallel session 3.4. Normative Questions About Basic Income

• Chair: Philippe Van Parijs (Secretary of BIEN and Université Catholique of Louvain)
• Jose Luis Rey Pérez, Universidad P. Comillas, Madrid
“A Juridical View on Basic Income”
• Richard K. Caputo, Yeshiva University, New York
“Equalization of Meeting Needs vs. Equalization of Income Distribution: Reconsiderations of Basic Income & Economic Justice in Light of Van Parijs and Zucker”
• Toru Yamamori, Tokio Metropolitan University
“Basic Income and Capability Approach: on Recognition and Deconstruction for
Difference”
• Cristian Pérez Muñoz, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
“Basic Income vs Market”
• Guillermo Munné, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina
“Is the Social State Against the Rule of Law? The Basic Income Answer”

11:30-13:00: Parallel session 4.4. Basic Income as an Instrument of Trade Union Policy: North and South Perspectives.

• Coordinators & Chairs: Àlex Boso (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Sergi Raventós (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
• Yannick Vanderborght, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Background paper: “Do Trade Unions Represent an Obstacle to the Introduction of a Basic Income? Lessons from the Belgian, Canadian and Dutch debates”
• Commentary by Eduardo Manajovsky, Central de Trabajadores de Argentina
• Commentary by Iñaki Uribarri, ILP promoter - Member of ESK, Spain
• Commentary by Joan Coscubiela, General Secretary of Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) in Catalonia, Spain

Out of programme (virtual paper)

• Patrick Danahey, Universal Income Trust, New Zealand
“Education and the Democratic Sovereignty of the People: a Human Rights Approach
Towards Universal Basic Income”

13:00-14:30: Lunch

14:30-17:15: Closing plenary session: "Basic Income in Response to Systemic Crisis"

14:30-15:45: Exchange 1: "Facing the New Crisis of Social Security and the Welfare State"

• Chair: Claus Offe, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Humboldt University of Berlin, and BIEN
• Christine Boutin, member of the French National Assembly, leader of the Forum des Républicains Sociaux
• Ricard Gomà, Department of Political Science, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

15:45-17:15: Exchange 2: "The Prospects of Basic Income in Developing Countries"

• Chair: Guy Standing, co-chair of BIEN and ILO, Geneva
• Eduardo Suplicy, Federal Senator of Brazil
• Ingrid Van Niekerk, Economic Policy Research Institute, Cape Town
• Rubén Lo Vuolo, Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Public Policies, Buenos Aires

17:15-17:45: Closing speeches
• José A. Noguera, vicepresident of Red Renta Básica, and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
• Philippe Van Parijs, secretary of BIEN and Chaire Hoover, Université Catholique de Louvain
• Antoni Castells, Minister of Economy of the Catalan Government

18:00-20:00 BIEN General Assembly

21:00: Reception by local authorities for all participants in the Congress: Celebration of the Anniversary of BIEN (10th Congress, 18 years of BIEN), at the Greenhouse of the Ciudadela Park (written indications on how to arrive will be delivered to all participants).



FURTHER EVENTS INCLUDED IN THE DIALOGUE ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Tuesday, September 21th:

09:30 - 10.30 Public presentation of the Dialogue Conclusions, by Jaume Saura, President of the Institute for Human Rights

10:30 - 11:00 “Towards a Better World for Children”, by the Child Advisory Comission of the Dialogue

11:00 - 12:00 Public presentation of the Universal Declaration of Emerging Human Rights, by José M. Bandrés, Honorary President of the Institute for Human Rights

12:00 - 12:30 Presentation of the Barcelona Manifesto: “The Right to a Just International Order and Global Democracy”, by Susan Sarandon / Michael Moore.

12:30h - 13:30 Closing speech: “The Right to Utopia”, by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil

LANGUAGES OF THE CONGRESS

English, French, Spanish and Catalan, with simultaneous translation in all plenary sessions, and English-Spanish in some specific parallel sessions.


REGISTRATION & ACCOMMODATION

To register for the BIEN Congress, please follow one of the options below:

1. Register directly on-line at www.barcelona.org.
2. Download and fill out the registration form and send it by fax to 0034 93 4897017, or post to
Fórum Universal de las Culturas
Ref. Inscripción Estudiantes Diálogos
c/ Llull, 95-97, planta 6, 08005, Barcelona - Spain
Note: the registration form is in Spanish, so please make sure to indicate the right Dialogue "Derechos humanos, necesidades emergentes y nuevos compromisos".
3. Phone 0034 901242004 and specify the title of the Dialogue: "Derechos humanos, necesidades emergentes y nuevos compromisos".

The registration fee paid before 31 July is 78 euros (35 euros for students and a 15% discount is available for people over 65, under 25, or for people with a disability). It includes:
• entrance to the BIEN Congress;
• entrance to the whole Dialogue on Human Rights: sessions on Saturday 18th and Tuesday 21st (immediately before and after BIEN Congress) offer a very interesting programme on Human Rights, which we strongly recommend;
• entrance to two receptions: one on Saturday 18th hosted by the Dialogue and one on Monday 20th specifically organised by BIEN-RRB;
• the fee also includes coffee-breaks.

Registered participants will also have access to plenty of exhibitions and activities that take place as parallel events to the Dialogue on Human Rights.

Registration documents of the Congress and the Dialogue will be available for collection at the Forum's Registration Centre, located at the entrance to the Forum site (corner of Taulat with Rambla Prim), from 17 September onwards.

The registration form includes also the possibility of booking accommodation in different areas of the city and with different price levels. Accommodation should be arranged by participants, and we recommend to do it as soon as possible. More information on hotels in Barcelona and the whole province may be also found athttp://www.barcelonahotels.es/.




ORGANIZING AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Daniel Raventós (President of Red Renta Básica. Professor of Social Theory at the University of Barcelona, ravento@eco.ub.es)

José A. Noguera (Programme coordinator. Professor of Sociology at the Universidad Autònoma of Barcelona, and Vice-president of Red Renta Básica, jose.noguera@uab.es)

David Casassas (Organization coordinator. Researcher at the University of Barcelona and Secretary of Red Renta Básica, casassas@eco.ub.es)

Sandra González (Researcher at Oxford University and the University of Barcelona. Member of the Executive Committee of Red Renta Básica, sandra.gonzalezbailon@lady-margaret-hall.oxford.ac.uk)

Francisco Ramos (Lecturer in Sociology at the Universidad Oberta de Catalunya. Treasurer of Red Renta Básica, empo@arrakis.es)