“…As can be seen from Table 3, many studies have analyzed village-related funds in different countries, and each country has its own implementation scheme, such as direct payments [35,37,38,41], loan/credit schemes [23,32,34,43], community driven development programs [29,40,42], and many others. However, none of them evaluated the implementation of those programs with respect to the achievement of SDGs, with some of them focusing only on some specific SDGs, such as infrastructure development and community welfare [18][19][20][21]. For the methodologies used, many prior studies used propensity score matching [23,[32][33][34][35]38,40], difference-in-difference [21,29,34,35,42], regression [19,20,36], and parallel trend hypothesis [21,29,36] analyses.…”