| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 亞太研究英語碩士學位學程(IMAS) === 106 === Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a cash grant that contains no means test and no work requirement. With the acceleration of income inequality, automation, and precariousness, UBI has become a serious policy consideration around the world. Based on the level of development of the country, the considerations behind basic income are different, from solving poverty to simplifying welfare administration. Thus far, the Asia Pacific has largely been overlooked in the global basic income discussion. Taiwan poses an interesting case in the global UBI movement because of its unique political history and international status. After Taiwan’s successful land-reforms, this idea of equal division of dividends from natural resources gradually faded from public view. In July 2016, Taiwan officially joined the largest international basic income organization Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) as UBI Taiwan. Since that time, Taiwan’s activists have engaged in a multi-prong strategy to facilitate discussion of basic income. Taiwan’s basic income activists have been split between technical-based discourse, that emphasizes feasibility analysis and experimental frameworks, and a value-based discourse, that emphasizes the ethics of UBI. Despite relative openness to the basic income concept, many Taiwanese view basic income through the lens of traditional welfare and remain skeptical that Taiwan could feasibly implement such a scheme.
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