[citation needed] Interest in the idea was raised by the Dutch artist Pieter Kooistra's in the 1970s, he developed the "Uno" plan.
It carried out research on the feasibility of a global basic income, building on the ideas from the previous decades.
Its primary aim is to promote the idea of distributing $10/month to all the world's population thereby eradicating extreme poverty.
[citation needed] The World Basic Income organisation held its first conference in February 2017 including speakers from the Global Income Foundation, BIEN, Share the World's Resources, CapGlobalCarbon, Hillel Steiner, Jonathan Bartley, John Merry, Manchester Migrant Solidarity, Max Harris and Belgian NGO "Eight".
In the 1970s, when the images of famine in India spread across the world, he began to develop the idea of a global basic income.