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Non-farm employment, natural resource extraction, and poverty: evidence from household data for rural Vietnam

Natural resources are important in sustaining the livelihoods of rural households and the environment. However, over-exploitation is causing an alarming depletion of natural resources in many developing countries. At the same time, rapid economic growth has created non-farm employment opportunities...

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Autores principales: Do, Manh Hung, Nguyen, Trung Thanh, Halkos, George, Grote, Ulrike
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9132762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35637778
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02391-7
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description Natural resources are important in sustaining the livelihoods of rural households and the environment. However, over-exploitation is causing an alarming depletion of natural resources in many developing countries. At the same time, rapid economic growth has created non-farm employment opportunities for local people. In this context, examining the interrelationship between non-farm employment and natural resource extraction provides useful information for reducing resource extraction and improving rural households’ welfare. In this study, we use a dataset of 1780 identical households from three survey waves undertaken in 2010, 2013, and 2016 in Vietnam to (i) identify the determinants of rural households’ participation in non-farm activities, (ii) examine the interrelationship between non-farm employment and natural resource extraction, and (iii) investigate the impact of non-farm employment on rural households’ welfare. The findings from pooled sample estimations reveal that (i) cable internet at home and rural road quality positively affect households’ decisions to participate in non-farm employment; (ii) non-farm income and income from natural resource extraction have a negative association; and (iii) non-farm income significantly contributes to poverty reduction in both relative and absolute terms. Our findings suggest that improved provision of non-farm opportunities and increased investment in infrastructure and telecommunication are needed to improve rural households’ welfare and consequently reduce their natural resource exploitation.
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spelling pubmed-91327622022-05-26 Non-farm employment, natural resource extraction, and poverty: evidence from household data for rural Vietnam Do, Manh Hung Nguyen, Trung Thanh Halkos, George Grote, Ulrike Environ Dev Sustain S.I. : Progress in Green Economy Natural resources are important in sustaining the livelihoods of rural households and the environment. However, over-exploitation is causing an alarming depletion of natural resources in many developing countries. At the same time, rapid economic growth has created non-farm employment opportunities for local people. In this context, examining the interrelationship between non-farm employment and natural resource extraction provides useful information for reducing resource extraction and improving rural households’ welfare. In this study, we use a dataset of 1780 identical households from three survey waves undertaken in 2010, 2013, and 2016 in Vietnam to (i) identify the determinants of rural households’ participation in non-farm activities, (ii) examine the interrelationship between non-farm employment and natural resource extraction, and (iii) investigate the impact of non-farm employment on rural households’ welfare. The findings from pooled sample estimations reveal that (i) cable internet at home and rural road quality positively affect households’ decisions to participate in non-farm employment; (ii) non-farm income and income from natural resource extraction have a negative association; and (iii) non-farm income significantly contributes to poverty reduction in both relative and absolute terms. Our findings suggest that improved provision of non-farm opportunities and increased investment in infrastructure and telecommunication are needed to improve rural households’ welfare and consequently reduce their natural resource exploitation. Springer Netherlands 2022-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9132762/ /pubmed/35637778 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02391-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Do, Manh Hung
Nguyen, Trung Thanh
Halkos, George
Grote, Ulrike
Non-farm employment, natural resource extraction, and poverty: evidence from household data for rural Vietnam
title Non-farm employment, natural resource extraction, and poverty: evidence from household data for rural Vietnam
title_full Non-farm employment, natural resource extraction, and poverty: evidence from household data for rural Vietnam
title_fullStr Non-farm employment, natural resource extraction, and poverty: evidence from household data for rural Vietnam
title_full_unstemmed Non-farm employment, natural resource extraction, and poverty: evidence from household data for rural Vietnam
title_short Non-farm employment, natural resource extraction, and poverty: evidence from household data for rural Vietnam
title_sort non-farm employment, natural resource extraction, and poverty: evidence from household data for rural vietnam
topic S.I. : Progress in Green Economy
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9132762/
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