@article{Purcell:164581,
      recid = {164581},
      author = {Purcell, Tim and Karunaratne, Neil and Tisdell, Clem},
      title = {Macroeconomic Effects of Disease Control in the Thailand  Livestock Sector - A CGE Analyis},
      address = {1997-01},
      number = {1739-2016-140424},
      series = {Research Papers and Reports in Animal Health Economics},
      pages = {83},
      year = {1997},
      abstract = {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 endemic to Thailand. The economic  effects of livestock diseases and their control are  reviewed. A change in the disease-free status of the  Thailand livestock sector is investigated using a  computable general equilibrium model. Three scenarios are  hypothesised. In the first scenario, where disease control  increases livestock production, resources shift out of  manufacturing and into the agriculture and tertiary sectors  leading to a decline in GDP and household welfare. In the  second scenario, where control increases livestock exports,  exports increase for all sectors and resources shift out of  the agriculture and tertiary sectors and into manufacturing  leading to an increase in GDP and household welfare. In the  third scenario, where disease control increases livestock  production productivity, there is a resultant decline in  livestock output and exports as factor input prices rise.  The flow-ons to the rest of the economy are negligible.
The  results show that disease control programs in the Thai  livestock sector would not produce major benefits to the  economy unless they were undertaken with a concurrent  elimination of export restrictions.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/164581},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.164581},
}