1. Income Impacts of Credit on Accessed Households in Rural Vietnam: Do Various Credit Sources Perform Differently?
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Rainer Kühl, Siegfried Bauer, and Do Xuan Luan
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Net national income ,Comprehensive income ,Economic policy ,Total personal income ,education ,Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Gross income ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Per capita income ,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Income in kind ,humanities ,Credit history ,Household income ,Demographic economics ,Business ,health care economics and organizations - Abstract
This study uses the Propensity Score Matching to examine the income impact of different credit sources on accessed households in the Northern Mountains of Vietnam. Results show that overall rural credit serves an important role in improving household income with respect to total income, per capita income and nonfarm income. However, different credit affects recipients heterogeneously. Whereas a significant increase in household income can be achieved through accessing commercial and informal loans, there is no significant increase of all income components associated recipients of preferential credit. These results imply that a successful credit scheme needs to consider variations in transaction costs, disbursement scheme, loan characteristics and typical socio-economic conditions of credit recipients.
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- 2016
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