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]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2413.3371%46%17%

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Florida AChicago B1001020
Harvard AChicago C010010
MIT ACornell B1010020
Imperial AHouston A100010
Indiana ANorth Carolina A010010
Northwestern AColumbia A1010020
Virginia ASouth Carolina A1010020
UC Berkeley AMinnesota A0000
Georgia Tech ABrown A10101030
WUSTL BClaremont A100010
Cornell AMaryland A1001020
Illinois AGeorgia Tech B100010
Rutgers APenn State A100010
Texas AToronto A100010
Yale AWUSTL A100010
Florida BVanderbilt A1010020
Penn AIowa State A1010020
Johns Hopkins AColumbia B100010
McGill AYale B0000
Stanford AOhio State A0000
Purdue ARutgers B010010
UC Berkeley BNYU A100010
Duke AChicago A0101020
Michigan AMinnesota B1010020