Livestock disease eradication programmes and farm incentives: The case of bovine tuberculosis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 181-192

  Wolf, Christopher A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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