Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/190177 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2018/130
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
The past 30 years have seen a consistent increase in agricultural commercialization in rural Viet Nam, at the same time when rural residents have moved increasingly into non-agricultural activities. The contribution of the latter to welfare improvement and poverty reduction is well known; in this paper we investigate the extent to which increased agricultural commercialization has also contributed to improving welfare levels. For this purpose, we use the five-wave Viet Nam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) panel data set from 2008-16 to consider the specific impacts of increased commercialization of rice, Viet Nam's dominant crop. We use three measures of welfare and two measures of agricultural commercialization, and find a significant impact of commercialization on household assets, a longer term welfare measure. However, we do not find much impact on household income and food consumption. The results also show heterogeneous effects across different types of households, with particularly large impacts for those who are frequent sellers.
Subjects: 
Commercialization
smallholders
rice
Viet Nam
JEL: 
O12
O13
Q12
Q13
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-572-5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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