Microeconomic Impacts of Institutional Change in Vietnam’s Northern Uplands

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author(s)/editor(s)
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Editors’ Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Executive Summary
• List of Abbreviations
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 General introduction
• 1.2 Conceptual framework: institutions, poverty and the environment
• 1.2.1 Linkages between poverty and the environment in agriculture.
• 1.2.2 The role of institutions
• 1.2.3 The role of land institutions, financial markets and communities
• 1.3 Background information
• 1.3.1 The land reform
• 1.3.2 The rural credit policy
• 1.4 Specific objectives and research hypotheses
• 1.5 Outline of the thesis
• 2 Presentation of the study area and data collection
• 3 Land titling policy and soil conservation practices in the northern Uplands of Vietnam
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Land reform and implementation in the NMR
• 3.3 The research area
• 3.4 Sampling and data collection
• 3.5 Estimation strategy
• 3.5.1 The household-level model
• 3.5.2 The plot-level model
• 3.6 Results and discussion
• 3.6.1 Land allocation in Yen Chau district
• 3.6.2 Knowledge and adoption of soil conservation technologies
• 3.6.3 Determinants of knowledge and adoption of soil conservation – the household-level model
• 3.6.4 Determinants of adoption of soil conservation – the plot-level model
• 3.7 Conclusion.
• 3.8 Appendix: Endogeneity of the land title variable: a test based on Instrumental Variable method
• 4 Has the reform permitted the emergence of a land market?
• 4.1 Introduction: efficiency and equity effects of land markets
• 4.2 Land titling and the land market in Vietnam
• 4.3 Land transactions in Yen Chau
• 4.4 Distributional effect of the land market.
• 4.5 Conclusion.
• 5 Rural Credit Policy in the Mountains of Northern Vietnam: Sustainability, Outreach and Impact
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 The data
• 5.3 The credit market in Yen Chau
• 5.3.1 Contract terms
• 5.3.2 Wealth and participation in the credit market
• 5.4 Formal lending in Yen Chau
• 5.4.1 Lending procedure
• 5.4.2 Demand and participation in the formal sector
• 5.4.3 Is there an interaction between the formal and informal sectors?
• 5.5 Impact of the government micro-credit program on welfare
• 5.5.1 The propensity score matching approach
• 5.5.2 Estimation of the propensity score and matching algorithms
• 5.5.3 Impact estimation.
• 5.6 Discussion and policy recommendations
• 5.7 Conclusion
• 5.8 Appendix.
• 6 Ethnic heterogeneity and the formation of social capital in rural communities of Northern Vietnam
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Ethnic heterogeneity and social capital, a review
• 6.2.1 Defining social capital
• 6.2.2 Ethnic heterogeneity and public goods
• 6.2.3 Identity and social network formation
• 6.3 The data
• 6.3.1 The settings
• 6.3.2 The survey
• 6.3.3 Descriptive statistics
• 6.4 Empirical strategy
• 6.4.1 The participation model
• 6.4.2 The social network capital model
• 6.5 Results
• 6.5.1 The determinants of participation
• 6.5.2 The determinants of households’ social network capital
• 6.6 Conclusion.
• 6.7 Appendix
• 7 Discussion and conclusions
• 7.1 Discussion of research findings and policy implications
• 7.2 Orientation for further research
• Bibliography