Trung Thanh Nguyen

Journal Article Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems · November 27, 2024 Artificial meat is increasingly recognized as a crucial innovation for addressing global food security challenges and reducing environmental pressures. This study aims to understand the practicability of promoting artificial meat consumption to ach ... Full text Cite

Gender and generosity: How contribution information triggers solidarity behavior during a crisis

Journal Article Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics · October 1, 2024 The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how important solidarity and prosocial behavior are in society. However, it is not well understood how solidarity behavior can be encouraged in such extreme cases. This study investigates the effect of activating crisis conc ... Full text Cite

Impact of crop commercialization on smallholder farmers’ resilience to shocks: Evidence from panel data for rural Southeast Asia

Journal Article Food Policy · October 1, 2024 We assess the impact of crop commercialization on the resilience to shocks of smallholder farmers and examine which groups of smallholders are more resilient from crop commercialization. We use balanced panel of 1,370 smallholders from Thailand and 1,497 s ... Full text Cite

Determinants and impacts of rural crime victimization: Evidence from a case study in Southeast Asia

Journal Article Journal of Asian Economics · April 1, 2024 We use a panel dataset of around 3500 rural households from Southeast Asia and investigate evidence on crime victimization. More concretely, we ask (1) to what extent are rural people affected by crime? (2) What factors determine rural crime victimization? ... Full text Cite

Impacts of EU Sanctions Levied in 2014 on Individual European Countries' Exports to Russia: Winners and Losers

Journal Article Eastern Economic Journal · April 1, 2024 We analyse the effects of sanctions implemented by the European Union against Russia following the latter’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. Indirect effects of sanctions on its non-prohibited exports to Russia are examined using a gravity model of trade that ... Full text Cite

Weather shocks, irrigation development and poverty: evidence from rural Northeast Thailand and Central Vietnam

Journal Article International Journal of Water Resources Development · January 1, 2024 Water is critical for agriculture in developing countries and climate change has created more extreme weather events. In this study, we examine the role of villages’ year-round irrigation in ensuring households’ irrigation to cope with weather shocks and i ... Full text Cite

Farming efficiency and environmental resource dependence: Evidence from panel data for rural Central Vietnam

Journal Article Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics · January 1, 2024 Farming and natural resource extraction are the main livelihood strategies of the rural poor in developing countries. A better understanding of their relationship is needed to alleviate existing pressures on resources and to reduce poverty. To date, mainly ... Full text Cite

Trade-offs between labour migration and agricultural productivity: Evidence from smallholder wheat systems in Nepal

Journal Article Journal of International Development · January 1, 2024 Rural labour out-migration has become a major contributor to off-farm income through remittances and plays a crucial role in supporting the livelihoods of rural households in developing economies. However, research on the simultaneous on-farm and off-farm ... Full text Cite

Natural resource extraction and ethnic inequality in Dak Lak, Vietnam

Journal Article Environment and Development Economics · December 8, 2023 Natural resource extraction is an important livelihood strategy for poor rural households in developing and emerging countries. Despite the sharp decline in poverty in Vietnam, inequality still exists between the ethnic majority and minority. This paper ai ... Full text Cite

Shocks, household consumption, and livelihood diversification: a comparative evidence from panel data in rural Thailand and Vietnam

Journal Article Economic Change and Restructuring · October 1, 2023 We examine the roles of land and labor diversification in mitigating the effects of covariate and idiosyncratic shocks in the two middle-income countries Thailand and Vietnam. We use an unbalanced panel dataset of rural households obtained from five survey ... Full text Cite

Female leadership, internet use, and performance of agricultural cooperatives in Vietnam

Journal Article Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics · September 1, 2023 Supporting agricultural cooperatives might contribute to the livelihood improvement of many small-scale farmers in developing countries. This research examines the factors affecting the internet use of agricultural cooperatives with a focus on female leade ... Full text Cite

Internet use and agricultural productivity in rural Vietnam

Journal Article Review of Development Economics · August 1, 2023 The use of the internet is growing rapidly and has become an engine for economic development. However, few studies have examined the impact of internet use on agricultural production, and the results are not yet conclusive. Employing a dataset of more than ... Full text Cite

Security risks from climate change and environmental degradation: implications for sustainable land use transformation in the Global South

Journal Article Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability · August 1, 2023 Climate change and environmental degradation remain the most complex challenges that present and future generations of humankind face and raise several security risks that have received relatively little attention in the literature. This paper aims to revi ... Full text Cite

Agricultural commercialisation, asset growth and poverty in rural Vietnam

Journal Article Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics · July 1, 2023 Poverty remains a substantial threat in rural areas of many developing countries, and solving this problem requires an in-depth understanding of the income generating capacity that determines poverty. This paper examines the impact of agricultural commerci ... Full text Cite

Insights for climate change adaptation from early sowing of wheat in the Northern Indo-Gangetic Basin

Journal Article International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · June 15, 2023 Early sowing of wheat has been proposed as an important crop management practice for reducing the threat of terminal heat stress – a threat which is likely to increase under climate change projections for the Indo-Gangetic Basin (IGB) of South Asia, home t ... Full text Cite

Land rental markets as a poverty reduction strategy: evidence from Southeast Asia

Journal Article Journal of Economics and Development · May 15, 2023 Purpose: This study aims to investigate whether the participation in land rental markets helps to mitigate impacts by climate change on multidimensional poverty in Thailand and Vietnam. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use precipitation data from t ... Full text Cite

Land consolidation, rice production, and agricultural transformation: Evidence from household panel data for Vietnam

Journal Article Economic Analysis and Policy · March 1, 2023 Land consolidation is important to increase the economies of scale in farming, and understanding its determinants and effects is useful for policy-makers to support rural transformation. In this paper, we examine the factors determining the voluntary parti ... Full text Cite

Credit, shocks and production efficiency of rice farmers in Vietnam

Journal Article Economic Analysis and Policy · March 1, 2023 Enhancing rice production efficiency in developing countries is important to improve the livelihoods of farmers and to ensure global food security for a growing population. Despite significant progress in recent decades, rice production is facing multiple ... Full text Cite

Micro insights on the pathways to agricultural transformation: Comparative evidence from Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

Journal Article Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics · March 1, 2023 Most studies of agricultural transformation document the impact of agricultural income growth on macroeconomic indicators of development. Much less is known about the micro-scale changes within the farming sector that signal a transformation precipitated b ... Full text Cite

Local infrastructure, rural households' resilience capacity and poverty: evidence from panel data for Southeast Asia

Journal Article Journal of Economics and Development · February 28, 2023 Purpose: The authors examine the association between infrastructure and a household's resilience capacity against shocks and the impacts of a household's resilience capacity on household consumption and poverty. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use ... Full text Cite

On the (a)symmetric effects of real exchange rate on trade flows: new evidence from US–Vietnam trade balance at the industry level

Journal Article Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy · January 1, 2023 In this paper, we examined the asymmetric and symmetric effects of real exchange rate on bilateral trade balance between the United States and Vietnam at the industry level by employing both ARDL and NARDL models. We found that (i) only symmetric real exch ... Full text Cite

Interstate war and food security: Implications from Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Journal Article Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems · January 1, 2023 In this article, we review and shed light on the interlinkages between interstate war and food insecurity and discuss global policy actions needed to address the challenges of food insecurity due to interstate war. We conceptualize the interlinkages betwee ... Full text Cite

The impact of productivity on export transitions: revisited evidence from the Vietnamese manufacturing sectors

Journal Article Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja · January 1, 2023 The effect of total factor productivity (TFP) on exports particularly interests policy-makers and economists, but empirical evidence is ambiguous. This paper uses the 6-wave panel data in 2010-2015 to investigate the impact of TFP on export transitions at ... Full text Cite

Farmland accumulation and rural household income: Evidence from the Red River Delta region of Vietnam

Journal Article Agricultural Economics (Czech Republic) · January 1, 2023 We identify the factors affecting the participation in land accumulation of rural households by using a multinomial logit model and assess the income effects of participation in land accumulation by using the propensity score matching (PSM) method. We use ... Full text Cite

The Effect of Renting in Cropland on Livelihood Choices and Agricultural Commercialization: A Case Study from Rural Vietnam

Journal Article European Journal of Development Research · December 1, 2022 This paper investigates the role of land rental markets in livelihood choices using data from 792 farming households in rural Vietnam. First, we cluster households according to livelihood strategies and estimate the determinants of the respective decision. ... Full text Cite

Shocks, agricultural productivity, and natural resource extraction in rural Southeast Asia

Journal Article World Development · November 1, 2022 Natural resources are depleting at an alarming rate, causing severe threats to the sustainable development in many developing countries. Given an ambiguous relationship between shocks, agricultural productivity, and natural resource extraction, we used a d ... Full text Cite

Criteria and Indicators to Define Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation in Vietnam

Journal Article Forests · September 1, 2022 Balancing biodiversity conservation with land use for agricultural production is a major societal challenge. Conservation activities must be prioritized since funds and resources for conservation are insufficient in the context of current threats, and cons ... Full text Cite

Female rural–urban migrants and online marketplaces in emerging economies: Evidence from Thailand and Vietnam

Journal Article Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies · September 1, 2022 This research aimed to examine the factors affecting the participation of female rural–urban migrants in online marketplaces, and the welfare gains and their distribution. Our analysis was based on a unique dataset of rural households, villages, and rural– ... Full text Cite

Internet use, natural resource extraction and poverty reduction in rural Thailand

Journal Article Ecological Economics · June 1, 2022 This study uses the data of 1912 and 1815 rural households surveyed in 2016 and 2017, respectively in three provinces of Thailand to examine the factors affecting the decision of rural households to use the internet and the impacts of internet use on house ... Full text Cite

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

Journal Article Environment, development and sustainability · May 2022 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 ha ... Full text Cite

Livestock production and income inequality in rural Vietnam

Journal Article Empirical Economics · February 1, 2022 We examine the factors affecting livestock production by using a two-part fixed effects model and assess the contribution of livestock production in reducing income inequality by using the Gini decomposition method. We use panel household data from four ru ... Full text Cite

Indigenous pig production and welfare of ultra-poor ethnic minority households in the Northern mountains of Vietnam

Journal Article Environment, Development and Sustainability · January 1, 2022 Eliminating ultra-poverty has received particular attention of policymakers and scholars. The ultra-poor in mountainous regions often live on subsistence farming and natural resource extraction. One of the sustainable ways to support them is to find altern ... Full text Open Access Cite

Impact of Community Based Conservation Associations on Forest Ecosystem Services and Household Income: Evidence from Nzoia Basin in Kenya

Journal Article Journal of Sustainable Forestry · January 1, 2022 Increasing the supply of forest ecosystem services in the tropics is on the agenda of most developing countries’ forest policies and most importantly in Kenya which is a low forest cover country. Evidence from past empirical impact assessments show numerou ... Full text Cite

Shock, risk attitude and rice farming: Evidence from panel data for Thailand

Journal Article Environmental Challenges · January 1, 2022 Rice is one of the most important crops for food security and rural livelihoods in many developing countries in Asia. However, the current rice farming practices heavily rely on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides that pose a significant threat to the env ... Full text Cite

Scale and scope economies in small household rice farming in Vietnam

Journal Article Journal of Integrative Agriculture · December 1, 2021 The Vietnamese agricultural sector has experienced a dramatic structural change based on increased specialization in rice cultivation. However, small-scale rice-farmers have continued to grow multiple crops, especially in less developed provinces. While th ... Full text Cite

Impact of economic sanctions and counter-sanctions on the Russian Federation's trade

Journal Article Economic Analysis and Policy · September 1, 2021 Economic sanctions remain a popular tool in international politics and have drawn the attention of economists, policy makers and the public. In this study, we examine the impact of economic sanctions imposed by Western countries on the exports of the Russi ... Full text Cite

Medium-and high-tech export and renewable energy consumption: Non-linear evidence from the ASEAN countries

Journal Article Energies · August 1, 2021 Sustaining economic growth while reducing dependence on fossil fuels remains a challenge for our world to fight against climate change and therefore finding a way to promote economic growth and increase renewable energy use is needed. This paper uses a 22- ... Full text Cite

Food Security and the Dynamics of Wheat and Maize Value Chains in Africa and Asia

Journal Article Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems · February 3, 2021 There is an ongoing debate about how best to feed the growing world population in the long run and associated implications for research and development. Some call for a new Green Revolution to secure the supply of staple foods, whereas others emphasize the ... Full text Cite

Environmental income and remittances: Evidence from rural central highlands of Vietnam

Journal Article Ecological Economics · January 1, 2021 Extraction of environmental resources and migration are closely related livelihood strategies of rural households in developing countries. Therefore, a deeper understanding of the relationship between environmental income and remittances is needed to lower ... Full text Cite

Farming efficiency, cropland rental market and income effect: Evidence from panel data for rural Central Vietnam

Journal Article European Review of Agricultural Economics · January 1, 2021 Understanding the drivers and income effects of land rental markets is important to facilitate agricultural transformation. This study uses a panel dataset of rural households in Vietnam to examine the efficiency, equity and income effects of land rental m ... Full text Cite

Reported weather shocks and rural household welfare: Evidence from panel data in Northeast Thailand and Central Vietnam

Journal Article Weather and Climate Extremes · December 1, 2020 Extreme weather events are reported to have severe effects on rural households in the developing world. This study uses a unique and comparable panel dataset of about 4000 rural households collected in three years (2010, 2013, and 2016) from Northeast Thai ... Full text Cite

Forest cover change, households' livelihoods, trade-offs, and constraints associated with plantation forests in poor upland-rural landscapes: Evidence from north central Vietnam

Journal Article Forests · May 1, 2020 Vietnam's forests have experienced a notable transformation over the past 20 years from net deforestation to reforestation and expanding forests. Continued reforestation that aims to achieve further economic and environmental benefits remains a national pr ... Full text Open Access Cite

Multiple shocks and households’ choice of coping strategies in rural Cambodia

Journal Article Ecological Economics · 2020 Full text Cite

Exposure to weather shocks: A comparison between self-reported record and extreme weather data

Journal Article Economic Analysis and Policy · 2020 Full text Cite

Health shocks and natural resource extraction: A Cambodian case study

Journal Article Ecological Economics · 2020 Full text Cite

How heterogeneous are the determinants of total factor productivity in manufacturing sectors? Panel-data evidence from vietnam

Journal Article Economies · January 1, 2020 One of the remaining challenges in explaining differences in total factor productivity is heterogeneity between sectors and within a specific sector in terms of labor and capital. This paper employs the generalized method of moments (GMM) to identify facto ... Full text Cite

COVID-19 in the Greater Mekong Subregion: how resilient are rural households?

Journal Article Food security · January 2020 In this paper we submit some thoughts on the possible implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for rural people in the countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). We base our observations and conclusions on our long-term research experience in the region ... Full text Cite