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| McCarthy, Nancy; McDermott, John; Coleman, Paul. |
| In many African countries, governments are re-thinking the role of the state in centrally providing certain goods and services. The rights and responsibilities for providing various public goods are being decentralized to lower levels of government administration, and/or being devolved directly to local citizens or user groups themselves. It is thus critical to ask: under what circumstances will local groups provide the socially optimal level of the public good? In this paper, we apply this question to the case of controlling an important vector-borne livestock disease in Uganda, trypanosomosis, which is transmitted by the tsetse fly. We investigate the underlying epidemiology of transmission and different options for control, and the implications for... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Public Goods; Collective Action; Vector-Borne Disease; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16114 |
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| Lansdell, Nicola; Stoneham, Gary. |
| Most markets have evolved as buyers and sellers constantly search for ways to create value, however this has not occurred naturally in all areas of the economy markets are missing for some goods, including the environment. In such cases, transaction costs linked to property rights, asymmetric and hidden information and packaging problems have often prevented otherwise valuable deals from being negotiated in relation to the environment. However new capabilities and a better knowledge and understanding of the problems at hand now mean that where the objective is clear, and the knowledge, skills and capability exist to understand, model and measure the relevant characteristics of the problem transaction costs are low enough that economists can, in certain... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Transaction Costs; Property Rights; Asymmetric and Private Information; Public Goods; Government Policy; Marketing. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25743 |
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| Rodseth, K.L.. |
| It is often assumed that the agricultural sector produces public goods or positive externalities that benefit the domestic consumers, in addition to its production of private goods. Efficient agricultural support is consequently directed towards resolving market failures caused by the existence of these public goods or externalities. We illustrate how this can be achieved in a Computable General Equilibrium model for one multifunctional aspect of agricultural production, namely the production of cultural landscape. Using a public good modeling framework as point of departure, we develop supply- and willingness to pay functions for cultural landscape. Governmental agricultural support is adjusted to achieve efficient supply of the public good. As an... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: CGE modeling; Multifunctionality; Public Goods; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44170 |
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