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

verfasst von: Trung Thanh Nguyen, Manh Hung Do, Dil B. Rahut, Viet Hung Nguyen, Panharoth Chhay
Abstract: 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 leadership, its effects on cooperatives’ economic, social, and innovative performance, and the distributional effects of internet use on economic performance. Our analysis relied on the data of 3,512 agricultural cooperatives collected in 2021 from Vietnam. We addressed the endogeneity issue of internet use in impact assessment by employing an instrumental variable approach. Our results show that female leadership was positively and significantly associated with internet use and that internet use had a positive and significant effect on returns on assets, returns on equity, labor productivity, payment per laborer, contribution to labor union and insurance per laborer, and innovation in products of agricultural cooperatives. In addition, unconditional quantile regressions show that internet use in agricultural cooperatives exacerbated income inequality. Enhancing female leadership and promoting rural education were recommended to improve agricultural cooperatives’ performance.
Organisationseinheit(en): Institut für Umweltökonomik und Welthandel
Externe Organisation(en): Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD), Vietnam
Typ: Artikel
Journal: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
Band: 94
Seiten: 877-903
Anzahl der Seiten: 27
ISSN: 1370-4788
Publikationsdatum: 06.08.2023
Publikationsstatus: Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed: Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete: Soziologie und Politikwissenschaften, Volkswirtschaftslehre und Ökonometrie
Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung: SDG 1 – Keine Armut, SDG 5 – Gleichberechtigung der Geschlechter, SDG 10 – Weniger Ungleichheiten
Elektronische Version(en): https://doi.org/10.1111/apce.12434 (Zugang: Offen)