Abstract

New Rural Construction Program is a key national program with the goal of comprehensive development of rural areas. After 10 years of implementation, it is necessary to assess the impact of the program, especially on people in rural areas. Four hundred and fifty-eight households in Hau Giang province were interviewed with respect to the commune groups with different levels of completion of the program criteria. The research results show that the new rural construction program positively affects income and socio-economic life in the study sites. By using propensity score matching method with the nearest neighbor matching, the research results show that the total income of the household after the program increases to VND 56,246 million/year at a statistical significance of 10%. For the scope/radius matching comparison method, the study showed that the total household income increased to VND 20,662 million/year at the 1% significance level.

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