While the world of implementing poverty programs in resource poor settings is messy and complex and full of difficult tradeoffs that have ethical implications, the fact that researchers are now engaging with these issues, often quite directly, is in our view a very positive development... if we think research is a valuable endeavor and generates important lessons, then researcher involvement in these questions should be encouraged. – Glennerster, Rachel and Shawn Powers (2013), Balancing Risk and Benefits: Ethical Tradeoffs in Running Randomized Evaluations.
