Livestock Production, Rural Poverty, and Perceived Shocks: Evidence from Panel Data for Vietnam
利用越南面板数据，评估畜牧业对减少农村贫困的贡献，并分析家庭畜牧业资产的影响因素，发现冲击次数、信贷、土地面积等是关键因素。
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.