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JOURNAL OF POLICY MODELING
Volume 41, Issue 1, Pages 120-139Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2019.02.007
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Microcredit; Poverty reduction; Economic growth; Input-Output analysis; Matched Difference-in-Difference
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- Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) [502.01-2018.18]
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Since its birth in 1970s, microcredit has been growing rapidly with the aim to reduce poverty and to promote economic growth. Using the large panel data of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Surveys, the objectives are twofold: (i) to evaluate the micro-impact of microcredit on rural household economy, particularly on output value and net income of rural households, using Matched Difference-in-Difference method; and (ii) to evaluate its macro-impact on economic growth, especially the aggregate effect of production increase and income growth, using Input-Output analysis. The results at micro level find that microcredit benefits self-employment rather than other economic activities of households. The salient results from the macro-economic analysis reveal that, not as expected, the effect of microcredit on output increase is not so large. The findings suggest that microcredit is an effective development strategy at both micro and macro levels, thus the Vietnamese government should enact the relevant policies to enhance the effectiveness and outreach of microcredit. (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of The Society for Policy Modeling.
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