An asset-based geographic targeting: evidence from rural Vietnam

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to find out which asset is the most suitable for a particular region through calculating marginal return to a range of assets and then creating a serial of maps. The data are taken from Vietnam Living Standard Survey in 2006. The Weighted Least Squares is used for running the regression and combining with technique bootstrap and stepwise iterative deletion with the threshold of 5%. All targetable assets are focused on calculating marginal benefit. It gives the reasonable findings that have very heterogeneous average marginal benefit across areas. The results give suggestion for choosing which assets are suitable for a particular region, thus it makes increases their efficacy. However, the governors and donors should consider the existence of trade-off equity and efficacy.