Abstract Commercialisation by smallholder farmers has played a major role in agricultural development in many Asian countries, and while there are assumptions that this has led to welfare improvement, in fact there is relatively little evidence on this question. In this paper we use high quality panel data to examine the welfare impact of agricultural commercialisation in a leading Asian producer, Vietnam. We use the five-wave Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) panel data set from 2008 to 16, three measures of household welfare and create commercialisation indexes in relation to all crops and to rice specifically. We find a significant positive relationship of commercialisation with household asset accumulation, but a negative association with consumption expenditure.

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农业商品化对越南农村家庭福利的影响

摘要 小农商业化在许多亚洲国家的农业发展中发挥了重要作用，虽然有人假设这会导致福利改善，但实际上关于这个问题的证据相对较少。在本文中，我们使用高质量的面板数据来检验亚洲主要生产国越南的农业商业化对福利的影响。我们使用 2008 年至 16 年的五波越南获取资源家庭调查 (VARHS) 面板数据集，三个家庭福利指标，并创建了与所有作物和水稻相关的商业化指数。我们发现商业化与家庭资产积累显着正相关，但与消费支出负相关。