Producing a village input–output table (VIOT) from household survey data: a case study of a VIOT for a rural village in northern Lao PDR

Soulixay Hongsakhone, Moinul Islam () and Masaru Ichihashi
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Soulixay Hongsakhone: Hiroshima University

Journal of Economic Structures, 2021, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-24

Abstract: Abstract In this study, a village input–output table (VIOT) is built from household survey data from a rural village in a developing country to capture the interdependency between households through their transactions in 2016. This VIOT is a simple, but useful tool for understanding the economic transactions among villagers. The main findings of this work are that lower- and middle-income households mainly depend on commodities supplied by non-poor counterparts, especially by four higher-income households, who are not only producers, but also traders of commodities in the village and play key roles in the village economy, and that the IO interdependency among non-poor households is stronger than that among poor households. Additionally, this paper describes a first trial application of the VIOT method to develop economic policies with goals such as poverty reduction and trade expansion in the village.

Keywords: Village input–output table; Inter-household dependency; Economic development; Transactions; D57; R15; I32; D13; O13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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