Livestock Production, Rural Poverty, and Perceived Shocks: Evidence from Panel Data for Vietnam.
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Truong Lam Do, Trung Thanh Nguyen and Ulrike Grote. The Journal of Development Studies, 2017, pp. 1-21.
Abstract: This paper assesses the
contribution of livestock to reducing rural poverty and examines the
determinants of livestock assets with panel data from Vietnam. The findings
show that livestock production contributes to reducing poverty and livestock
assets are influenced by the number of shocks that households faced during the
last three years, access to credits, farmland size, education of household
head, irrigation system, and access to the national electricity. We suggest that
empowering rural households to better cope with shocks contributes to
developing livestock and consequently to reducing rural poverty.