TAILIEUCHUNG - Socio-economic impact of rural credit in Northern Vietnam: Does it differ between clients belonging to the ethnic majority and the minorities

The paper evaluates the impact of rural credit program on socio-economic development with emphasis on two classifications of clients at household level: the majority and the ethnic minorities in Vietnam. Our paper utilizes the regression analysis of survey data collected in 10 provinces from the North to the South of Vietnam. | Asian Social Science; Vol. 11, No. 10; 2015 ISSN 1911-2017 E-ISSN 1911-2025 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education Socio-economic Impact of Rural Credit in Northern Vietnam: Does It Differ between Clients Belonging to the Ethnic Majority and the Minorities? Tran Thi Thanh Tu1, Nguyen Phu Ha1 & Tran Thi Hoang Yen1 1 VNU University of Economics and Business, Hanoi, Vietnam Correspondence: Tran Thi Hoang Yen, VNU University of Economics and Business, Hanoi, Vietnam. E-mail: Received: November 30, 2014 doi: Accepted: December 31, 2014 Online Published: April 20, 2015 URL: Abstract The paper evaluates the impact of rural credit program on socio-economic development with emphasis on two classifications of clients at household level: the majority and the ethnic minorities in Vietnam. Our paper utilizes the regression analysis of survey data collected in 10 provinces from the North to the South of Vietnam. The analysis reveals that rural credit poses positive impacts on Vietnamese population living in both rural and remote areas. More specifically, an increased VND 1 million of loan would raise the income by VND million. At the same time, it would contribute annually to create jobs. Besides, it is worth noting that the effects of income improvement and job creation are strongly determined by household’s characteristics, . number of working adults, experience of heads of households, and lending conditions in terms of loan size. In addition, rural credit facilitates the access to more nutrition of food in the minorities. Empirical results support that micro-credit intervention in the ethnic minority community has tendency to focus on job-creation and food nutrition rather than income improvement. The t-tests used in this paper support for the alternative hypothesizes that significantly different impact of rural credit program between two separated groups

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