Similar experiments are being tried in India : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_in_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_in_India http://b

Similar experiments are being tried in India : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_in_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_in_India http://binews.org/2011/09/india-basic-income-pilot-projects-are-underway/ http://binews.org/2011/09/india-basic-income-pilot-projects-... here is an excerpt from the 2nd link : "These projects are similar to the Namibian basic income pilot project and to the U.S. and Canadian governments’ Negative Income Tax experiments conducted in the 1960s and 1970s, but the rural project adds an important new innovation to the method: the project is being conducted on the village, rather than on the individual, level. All residents of eight Indian villages will receive the basic income, and their behavior will be compared with residents of twelve “control” villages. This method will allow project designers to study village-wide effects of the transfer. Guy Standing, professor of economic security at Bath University (UK) and an honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network, helped to conceive and organize the project. He argues that it needs to be conducted with scientific dispassion. But he’s hopeful of the outcome. Asked about the results of the Namibian pilot project—which he was also a part of—Standing said that organizers documented many positive effects: “Child school attendance went up dramatically, use of medical clinics went up. Those with HIV/ AIDS started to take ARTs (Antiretroviral Therapy drugs) because they’d been able to buy the right sort of food with the cash. Women’s economic status improved, and the economic crime rate went down. Income distribution improved.”"