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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Can microcredit reduce vulnerability to poverty? Evidence from rural Vietnam
Contributor:
Phan, Chung Thanh;
Vo, Thang Tat;
Vo, Diem Thi Hong
Published:
Wiley, 2023
Published in:
Review of Development Economics, 27 (2023) 1, Seite 608-629
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1111/rode.12951
ISSN:
1363-6669;
1467-9361
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
AbstractExtant literature has extensively explored microcredit's impacts, confirming its essential role in poverty alleviation. However, most studies focus on poverty measures that exclusively emphasize current poverty status without adequately addressing the potential of falling into or remaining in poverty. Furthermore, the role of credit services in helping the poor in rural areas appears to be underexamined in the literature. To address this knowledge gap, this study investigates whether rural microcredit can reduce household vulnerability to poverty. A theoretical framework is developed to capture the mechanism by which microcredit borrowing has a vital role in household businesses and impacts the probability of being poor in the future. The Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey data set from 2008 to 2016 is used to explore this issue. The findings indicate that rural Vietnam's access to microcredit significantly reduces vulnerability to poverty. Moreover, better‐off households are seemingly the most effective at using microcredit, whereas the opposite is found among worse‐off households. These results are found to be robust using the propensity score matching method.