Question
The program GiveDirectly has used M-PESA (“em-PAY-sah”) and MTN to implement one of these programs in Kenya. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these programs in which an entire population is given equivalent grants, sometimes as a means to replace welfare programs.
ANSWER: universal basic income [or UBI; accept guaranteed minimum income; accept citizens’ dividend, accept demogrants; prompt on negative income tax; prompt on income or dividend]
[10m] Plans to expand this country’s Ingreso Solidario (“een-GRAY-soh soh-lee-DAH-ree-oh”) basic income program fell short due to April 2021 protests about the expansion of value-added taxes suppressed by ESMAD (“ess-MAHD”). In 2020, over a third of environmental activist murders worldwide occurred in this country, whose 2019 protests supported the “peace process.”
ANSWER: Colombia [or Republic of Colombia; or República de Colombia]
[10h] This man’s casinos finance Macau’s basic income, the Wealth Partaking Scheme. Gambling became Macau’s central industry after his chair of the STDM was granted a government monopoly on casinos.
ANSWER: Stanley Ho [or Stanley Ho Hung-sun; or Hé Hóngshēn]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornell A | Maryland A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Florida A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Florida B | Vanderbilt A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Brown A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Harvard A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Houston A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana A | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| MIT A | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| McGill A | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michigan A | Minnesota B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn A | Iowa State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Purdue A | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Penn State A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Ohio State A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Texas A | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | Minnesota A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| UC Berkeley B | NYU A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia A | South Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Claremont A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | WUSTL A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |