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ABSTRACT

Received 16 Aug 2017
Revised 02 Nov 2017

Accepted 20 Jul 2018

The present study was aimed at evaluating the impact of the National Target Program on New Rural Development on the household income in Go Quao district, Kien Giang province where had been selected as a pilot site of the program in the province since 2010. The data was collected from a survey on 194 households at the study site. The survey was conducted in 2015 to collect the retrospective data on the income of households and the socio-economic characteristics of households and communities from 2010 to 2014. Then, the Difference in Differences (DiD) estimator associated with the random effects model was applied to explore the impact as well as the determinants of household income. Estimation results showed that the impact was positive and significant in the first year but turned to insignificant afterwards. The household income is increasing during 2011 – 2013 and mainly dependent on the transportation infrastructure of the community and the participation in agricultural cooperatives. In addition, since household income mainly came from agricultural production, labor and landholding were also key predictors of income.

Keywords

Difference in differences, Go Quao, household income, impact evaluation, national target program on new rural development

Cited as: Hieu, P.C. and Thong, P.L., 2018. The impact of the “National target program on new rural development” on household income: The case of Go Quao district, Kien Giang province. Can Tho University Journal of Science. 54(5): 16-22.