Productive, social and ecological Keynesianism

Cristovam Buarque

13th International Conference of the Basic Income Earth Network: Basic Income as an instrument for justice and

peace

Rio de Janeiro, 2nd July 2010

The five crises

Financial crisis

The five crises

Economic crisis

Financial crisis

The five crises

Economic crisis

Financial crisis

Socialcrisis

The five crises

Economic crisis

Financial crisis

Socialcrisis

Ecologicalcrisis

The five crises

The negative intersections between the crises

To balance finances, GDP and social policies suffer. To raise the GDP and social welfare, finances and ecology suffer.

EconomyFinance

SocialEcology

The five crises

Financial crisis

Ecologicalcrisis

Economic crisis

Socialcrisis

Ideological crisis

The fifth crisis

Productive, social and ecological Keynesianism

Traditional Keynesianism

Government Unemployed

Market

consumption

dynamic recovery

transfer

income

Productive, social and ecological Keynesianism

Productive Keynesianism

Government

Poor people

Market

income transfer to hire

consumption

dynamic recovery

income

Goods and services to meet the

needs of the poor

Satisfaction of needs

employment

Productive, social and ecological Keynesianism

All children in school - the impacts of the Bolsa-Escola

BOLSA-ESCOLA

Promotes local

governmental empowerment Defends human

rights, especially children's rights

Inhibits migration

Enhances family bonds

Empowers women

Relieves poverty (increases

income, brings better food,

health, housing)

Creates job and income

growth

Promotes economic growth from the bottom

of the social pyramid

Drastically reduces drop-

out

Eradicates child labor

Enhances the quality of education

Increases adult literacy

Impacts on Citizenship and Solidarity

Impacts on Society and Economy

Impacts on Children's Life and Education

Productive, social and ecological Keynesianism

The school savings program – Poupança Escola: gives the student a financial incentive for annual promotion to the next grade and for continuing the studies until the end of secondary school.Guarantee of a Preschool Salary and of a Preschool Basket: avoids that mothers abandon their children in order to work. Mothers receive a salary and a basket with food and pedagogical toys for their kids. Baskets will be distributed in the school, where mothers will also receive the necessary instruction.Promotion of reading: fights one main characteristic of poverty – the low reading level, even among the literate. It is necessary to carry the libraries to the people, in the form of Domestic Libraries (bibliotecas domésticas) or Book Suitcases (malas do livro)Paid Civic Service: building a society without partition demands a program aimed at young people, offering a salary, a goal, a labor ability, satisfaction, citizenship.

Productive, social and ecological Keynesianism

School at home : paid incorporation of up to 500 thousand young people and adolescent to serve as monitors na supplementary education program.Incorporation of the Brazilian University into the antipoverty struggle:

– Preparation and recycling of elementary and secondary school teachers

– Involvement in the eradication of adult illiteracy in four year's time

– Reorganization of some courses so that they contribute to the formulation and implementation of antipoverty policies and respect for ecology, employment creation, valorization of social justice, housing, and health and nutrition care.

Healthcare for everyone: simple actions can increase the health level of the poor, guaranteeing running water and sewage, offering family medical care, building efficient public hospital, creating jobs for cleaning agents.

Productive, social and ecological Keynesianism

The Literacy Scholarship – the Bolsa Alfa: to mobilize the illiterates’ idle energy so that they will learn to read as quickly as possible. One way to accomplish this is to pay adults to learn to read.Training and financing of the Small Producer: a program to train the workforce and, at the same time, offer credit and technical assistance to those trainedPeople's Bank: since the financial system only makes loans to those who already have access to credit, it would be a great revolution if capital is made available to finance small producers.Unmigration: any antipoverty program will have limited effect unless the whole country is involved in an intense unmigration program from urban areas. A fund can be created and used to pay the equivalent to half a minimum wage for up to six months to the unemployed people would return to their place of origin.

Productive, social and ecological Keynesianism

Space of tolerated inequality, established by individual talent and

persistence

Space of superfluous consumptionto be prevented by regulations

of environmental protection

Space of social exclusion to be prevented by social policies

Social protection net

Social ascension ladder

Limits to necessary consumption

Productive, social and ecological Keynesianism

Text: Cristovam BuarqueImage selection, translation and special effects: Christiana Ervilha

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