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A Review of Economic Evaluations of Government Policies for the Control of Cattle Tick

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The common cattle tick has been a problem to Australian cattle producers since its arrival from Java since 1872. Over the past thirty years, a considerable research agenda on optimum cattle tick management strategies for individual producers has been conducted. However only a limited focus has been placed on evaluating the effectiveness of Government policies towards the cattle tick. This is despite successive expensive eradication and control policies in New South Wales and a major regulatory framework in Queensland. This paper reviews the major economic evaluations of Australian Government policy towards the cattle tick, focusing on the use of the Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) technique. The paper also examines the evaluation of Government policy towards the tick overseas, especially the CBA of the United States sponsored tick eradication campaign in Puerto Rico. The paper concludes that aside from the CBA conducted in New South Wales for the Cattle Tick Review Committee (1980), the evaluation of public policy towards tick control has not provided decision-makers with thorough investigations of the economic effects of alternative tick control/eradication options. The lack of a comprehensive CBA into alternative tick control policy options is especially a concern in Queensland, where the same policy has remained basically unaltered, since the early 1900s.

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  • Davis, Rex, 1997. "A Review of Economic Evaluations of Government Policies for the Control of Cattle Tick," Animal Health Economics 164583, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uqseah:164583
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.164583
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    1. Ramsay, Gavin, 1997. "Modelling to Predict Disease and Severity Using Age Specific Seroprevalence Data," Animal Health Economics 164584, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    2. Harrison, Steve & Tisdell, Clem, 1995. "The Role of Animal Health Programs in Economic Development," Animal Health Economics 164520, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    3. Harrison, Steve, 1996. "Cost-Benefit Analysis with Applications to Animal Health Programmes: Animal Health Programmes and Information Systems," Animal Health Economics 164574, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    4. Ramsay, Gavin & Tisdell, Clem & Harrison, Steve, 1997. "The Distribution of Benefits from Improved Animal Health Decision Making as a Result of the Collection of Additional Animal Health Information," Animal Health Economics 164589, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    5. Kehren, Tatjana & Tisdell, Clem, 1997. "The Thai Dairy Industry: Its Economic Evolution Raised by Land Rights and Cattle Diseases," Animal Health Economics 164582, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    6. Tisdell, Clem, 1996. "On the Economics of Maintaining the Health of Livestock with Thai Examples," Animal Health Economics 164579, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    7. Davis, Rex, 1996. "An Overview of the Status of Cattle Tick Boophilus microplus in Queensland," Animal Health Economics 164564, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    8. Davis, Rex, 1996. "A review and Extension of Economic Pest Control Model Incorporating Multi-Pest Species and Insect Resistance," Animal Health Economics 164525, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    9. Murphy, Thomas & Tisdell, Clem, 1995. "Overview of Pigs and Poultry: Specific Livestock Industries, Livestock Diseases and Policies in Thailand," Animal Health Economics 164523, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    10. Tisdell, Clem, 1995. "Assessing the Approach to Cost-Benefit Analysis of Controlling Livestock Diseases of McInerney and Others," Animal Health Economics 164427, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    11. Ramsay, Gavin & Tisdell, Clem & Harrison, Steve, 1997. "Discounted Cash Flow Analysis of Disease Control Programs," Animal Health Economics 164587, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    12. Ramsay, Gavin, 1997. "Assessing the Effect of Vaccination on Disease Incidence and Severity," Animal Health Economics 164585, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    13. Tisdell, Clem, 1996. "Economics of Investing in the Health of Livestock: New Insights," Animal Health Economics 164580, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    14. Murphy, Thomas, 1996. "Optimal Livestock Disease Control Models and Their Possible Application to Thailand," Animal Health Economics 164566, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    15. Murphy, Thomas & Tisdell, Clem, 1996. "An Overview of Trends and Developments in the Thai Dairy Industry," Animal Health Economics 164567, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    16. Murphy, Thomas, 1996. "Foot and Mouth Disease: An Overview of its Global Status, Control Policies and the Thai Case," Animal Health Economics 164563, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    17. Tisdell, Clem, 1994. "Animal Health and the Control of Diseases: Economic Issues with Particular Referene to a Developing Country," Animal Health Economics 164424, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    18. Smith, Alister & Harrison, Steve, 1997. "Recent Trends in the Production and Trade of Cattle Beef and Pigs in Thailand," Animal Health Economics 164591, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    19. Ramsay, Gavin & Harrison, Steve & Tisdell, Clem, 1997. "Private Decisions in Livestock Disease Control and the Value of Additional Information about Animal Health," Animal Health Economics 164588, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    20. Ramsay, Gavin, 1997. "Calculating the Production Loss Avoided by Disease Control," Animal Health Economics 164586, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    21. Kehren, Tatjana & Tisdell, Clem, 1996. "Women and Common Property Resources in the Management and Health of Livestock in Thai Villages," Animal Health Economics 164575, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    22. Murphy, Thomas & Tisdell, Clem, 1995. "Trends in the Thai Livestock Industry, Animal Health Implications and Thailand's Development: An Introduction," Animal Health Economics 164521, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
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    24. Murphy, Thomas, 1996. "A Review of the Economics of Controlling Diseases in Livestock and the Modelling of Control Policies," Animal Health Economics 164565, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    25. Ramsay, Gavin, 1996. "Collecting Animal Health Data for Cattle Properties in Extensive Grazing Systems," Animal Health Economics 164577, University of Queensland, School of Economics.

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