The overall goal of this project was to develop and evaluate the necessary tools to provide decision makers with reliable animal health information placed in context and analysed appropriately in both Thailand and Australia. This goal was substantially achieved by improving laboratory diagnostic...

Funds for public programmes for control of animal diseases are limited and especially so in less developed countries. Therefore it is important from an economic point of view to get the 'best value for money' from such control expenditure. After briefly reviewing the economic rationale for...

Livestock are of growing importance in agriculture. Global populations of livestock have increased significantly in recent decades, and East Asia has recorded major increases in its livestock numbers. Thailand’s stocks of poultry, cattle and pigs have expanded with its economic development....

The remarkable growth of the dairy industry has been one of the more significant developments in the Thai livestock industry in recent years. Milk has never been an important product in traditional Thai society. Prior to the 1960s imports satisfied the small urban demand that existed for milk...

This discussion paper is one of a series of six papers which brings together both cost-benefit analysis methodology and the problems and issues in evaluation of regional and national animal health programs. Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a powerful economic technique for evaluating public sector...

Cost-benefits analysis is a powerful method of evaluating the economic merits of public sector investments. Demands by treasury departments for justification of budgets of government agencies, and new developments in measurement of non-market costs and benefits, ensure wide use. The availability...

Increased demand for livestock products and the regime switch from import substitution to export orientated industrialisation has put pressure on the livestock sector in Thailand to expand production and exports. One of the constraints to expansion is the production and trade effects of diseases...

At the third meeting of the Office International des Epizooties (OIE) Sub-Commission for Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Southeast Asia in February 1997, it was acknowledged that foot-and- mouth disease (FMD) is still present in most Southeast Asian countries, in particular Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos,...

Outlines the basic cost-benefit analysis of Mcinerney of the optimal control of livestock diseases and presents it in a different and more readily understood form. Furthermore, this analysis is extended to discussions about the control of several diseases, for example, how to allocate available...

Changes in the economic, demographic and political characteristics of Thailand have had a strong impact on the traditional nature of Thailand’s agriculture and livestock industries over the last few decades. This paper outlines the development of the Thai dairy industry and discusses economic...