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the likelihood of successful eradication and reducing control costs and damages from future invasions. We develop a …
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We present a conceptual, but empirically applicable, model for determining the optimal allocation of resources between exclusion and control activities for managing an invasive species with an uncertain discovery time. This model is used to investigate how to allocate limited resources between...
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of eradication policies when opium is used as a means of obtaining credit, and when the crops are produced in … sharecropping arrangements. The analysis suggests that when perfect credit markets are available, an increased risk of eradication … effects of eradication are no longer clear-cut. Finally, under sharecropping arrangements, increased risk of eradication will …
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Syphilis has re-emerged as a global public health issue. In lesser developed countries, millions of people are contracting the disease, which can be fatal without access to proper treatment. In developed countries, prevalence is on the rise and has cycled around endemic levels for decades. We...
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nationwide introduction of malaria eradication efforts to identify causal impacts. The core findings are that birth year exposure … to malaria eradication was associated with increases in Raven Progressive Matrices test scores and consumption … expenditures, but not schooling. Additionally, cohorts born after eradication both entered and exited school earlier than their pre-eradication …
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Most evaluations of the economic impacts of invasive species are done post facto and concentrate on direct production loss caused. However, the effects of invasive species on non-market services such as biodiversity and landscapes can be considerable. A proactive approach of assessing the...
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was to realize economic, social and organizational impact assessment of the Aujeszky Disease Eradication Project in Santa …
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. Specifically, we examine the impact of eradication policies when opium is used as a means of obtaining credit, and when the crops …, with perfect credit markets, the eradication policy is likely to have the intended effect of lowering opium crop production …. However, when opium is sold on futures markets as a means of obtaining credit, the effects of opium eradication are no longer …
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in making the best decision. This paper presents a model to decide when immediate eradication of a weed should be … invasion size at which it is no longer optimal to attempt eradication, and the invasion size at which it becomes optimal not to …
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In Kerala, malaria had been eradicated as early as in 1965. But imported malaria used to occur even thereafter; and indigenous malaria showed signs of resurgence from 1969 onwards. Recently an increasing trend of both imported and indigenous malaria cases has been observed. Malaria began to...
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