Insurability conditions and livestock disease insurance

The Economics of Livestock Disease Insurance: Concepts, Issues and Internaitonal Case Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 53-67

  Shaik, Saleem ^a   Barnett, Barry J ^b   Coble, Keith H ^a   Miller, J Corey ^a   Hanson, Terry ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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