Towards ethical good practice in cash transfer trials and their evaluation.

Over the past 20 years, cash transfers have become increasingly widespread within international development and global social policy. Often, their roll out is preceded by a trial or pilot phase aiming to check feasibility effectiveness. These pilots can involve thousands of people. However, there limited discussion literature (and even less in practice) how whether transfer trials research that they respect ethical standards. This paper represents an initial step towards filling gap. It does so reviewing latest pertaining ethics experimentation. concludes advancing series proposals could support take place with greater for norms best interests participants. The paper’s findings relevance policymakers practitioners working also smaller cognate world Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) piloting.