INTERNATIONAL SEMINARY UNIVERSAL INCOME AND WEALTH DISTRIBUTION The topic of wealth distribution and social disparities has gained momentum for more than two decades in the world of economic policy as a topic to impulse more equitable social policies and reduction of inequalities. Considering that the conclusions of the 2014 yearly report of the National Committee of Social Policies Evaluation features an invitation to contemplate Solidary and Universal Income as an alternate policy to the conditional cash transfer programs to tackle national inequalities and the problem of wealth distribution, the Belisario Dominguez Institute of The Senate of The United States of Mexico (BDI), the Regional Headquarters of Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) summons lawmakers, public servants, academics, members of international organizations, enterprises and NGOs to the : 1
INTERNATIONAL SEMINARY UNIVERSAL INCOME AND WEALTH DISTRIBUTION Which will be organized by and in the Senate of the United States of Mexico, on the 19th, 20th and 21st of April 2016, according to the following PROGRAM 2
APRIL THE 19th INAUGURATION AND LECTURES VENUE: SALÓN DE PLENOS DE LA COMISIÓN PERMANENTE / MAIN BUILDING OF THE MEXICAN SENATE 10:00-10:30 AM / INAUGURATION Senator Luis Sánchez Jiménez / Vicepresident of the Steering Committee / Senate of the United States of Mexico Hugo Eduardo Beteta / President of the regional headquarters of ECLAC in Mexico Senator Miguel Barbosa Huerta / President of the Belisario Domínguez Institute (IBD) LECTURES / UNIVERSAL INCOME AND WEALTH DISTRIBUTION 10.30-11.00 AM/ Lecture / Daniel Raventós Pañella / President of the Spanish BIEN network. Universal income: poverty, inequalities and liberties 11.00-11.10 AM/ Commentator / Enrique Del Val Blanco / Economist from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) / Member of the Economic and Social Committee of City of Mexico and member of the Mexican Academy of Economic Policy. 11.15-11.45 AM/ Ralph Kundig and Gabriel Barta Founder and cofounder of the Swiss BIEN network. Switzerland months before the first referendum about basic income. 11:45-11:55 AM. Commentator / Mauricio de María y Campos / Graduate in Economy UNAM and Master in Arts of Developping Economy Sussex University. 12.00-12.30 PM/ Lecture / Ville-Veiko Pulkka / Research Department, The Social Insurance Institution of Finland / Jurgen De Wispelaere / 3
Senior Researcher with the basic income experiment and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Tampere, Finland Reach and perspectives of the experience of universal income in Finland 12:30-12:40 PM. Comentator / Araceli Damián González Federal Congresswoman. 12:40-13:30 PM. Q&A 13:30-16:00 PM. RECESS 16:00-16:30 PM. Lecture / Eduardo Suplicy / Municipal Secretary of Human Rights and Citizenship of São Paulo y exsenator of the Brasilian Congress. Universal Income perspectives in Brazil 16:30-16:40 PM. Commentator / Carlos Tello Macías / Academic Program of Development Studies UNAM. 16:40-17:00 PM. Q&A 4
APRIL THE 20th ROUND TABLES: IS BASIC INCOME PERTINENT IN MEXICO? VENUE: OLD BUILDING OF THE MEXICAN SENATE, STREET XICOTENCATL #9 10 AM / FIRST PART / STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM AND DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS 10:00-10:20 AM. Welcome and presentation of the objectives of the round table / Coordinated by Pablo Yanes / ECLAC (CEPAL) México Regional Headquarters. 10:20-10:40 AM. Ph. D. Gonzalo Hernández Licona / Executive secretary of the National Council for Social Policy Evaluation (CONEVAL) 10:40-11:00 AM. Senator Luis Sánchez Jiménez / Vice-president of the steering committee of the Senate of the Mexican United States 11:00-11:20 AM. Committee of Constitutional Affairs of the Senate of the United States of Mexico. 11:20-11:40 AM. Finances and Public Credit Committee President of the Senate of the United States of Mexico. 11:40-12:00 AM. Cecilia Soto González / Federal Congresswoman 12:00-12:10 AM. RECESS 12:10-12:30 PM. Julio Boltvinik Kalinka / Doctor en Ciencia Sociales del Colegio de México (COLMEX). 12:30-12:50 PM. Gerardo Esquivel Hernández / Director del Instituto Belisario Domínguez (IBD) del Senado de la República. 5
12:50-13:10 PM. Rogelio Huerta Quintanilla / Member of the Economy Faculty of the UNAM. 13:10-13:30 PM. Representative of the Ministry of Finances and Public Credit (SHCP) 13:30-13:40PM. Representative Development (SEDESOL) of the Ministry of Social 13:40-14:00 PM. Q&A. 14.00 PM-16.00 PM/ RECESS 16.00-18.00 PM/ THIRD PART / DIALOG BETWEEN LECTURERS AND COMMENTATORS FOR CONCLUSIONS 18.00 PM/ CLOSING CEREMONY / Senator Luis Sánchez Jiménez / Vicepresident of the Steering Committee 6
APRIL THE 21st PREVIEW OF IN THE SAME BOAT BY RODOLFO MAURIZIO GNUTTI VENUE: AUDITORIO SEBASTIAN LERDO DE TEJADA / SENATE BUILDING ON STREET DONCELES #14 / MEXICAN SENATE 11AM/ Presentation and screening of In the Same Boat by its director, Rodolfo Maurizio Gnutti and Daniel Raventós, founder of the BIEN network. In the same boat is based on the analysis of a surprising, and scacerly studied, economic paradox: technological unemployment, to finally self-critically analyze the contradictions of modern society. Unemployment is spreading across a globalist planet like an epidemic, even in emerging economies. While all our efforts were focused on creating more jobs, paradoxically, technology offers us the unique opportunity to work less and less. There is a significant body of thinking that proposes a more rational sharing of jobs, profits and resources, without destroying the system. Coordinator of international invitees : Adrián VILLA GOURDON / HEC Paris Management, Economy and Finance / Advisor to the vicepresidency of the Mexican Senate 7