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An expost economic assessment of the intervention against highly pathogenic avian influenza in Nigeria

Bio-based and Applied Economics

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Title An expost economic assessment of the intervention against highly pathogenic avian influenza in Nigeria
 
Creator Fadiga, Mohamadou L.; International Livestock Research Institute
Okike, Iheanacho; International Livestock Research Institute
Bett, Bernard; International Livestock Research Institute
 
Subject avian influenza; infection control; biological risk management; damage function; incremental net benefit
Q02; Q18; Q14
 
Description This study assesses the intervention against avian influenza in Nigeria. It applied a simple compartmental model to define endemic and burn-out scenarios for the risk of spread of HPAI in Nigeria. It followed with the derivation of low and high mortality risks associated to each scenario. The estimated risk parameters were subsequently used to stochastically simulate the trajectory of the disease, had no intervention been carried out. Overall, the intervention costs US$ 41 million, which was yearly dis- bursed in various amounts over the 2006-2010 period. The key output variables (incremental net benefit, disease cost, and benefit cost ratio) were estimated for each randomly drawn risk parameter. With a 12% annual discount rate, the results show that the intervention was economically justified under the endemic scenario with high mortality risk. On average, incremental benefit under this scenario amounted to US$ 63.7 million, incremental net benefit to US$27.2 million, and benefit cost ratio estimated to 1.75.
 
Publisher Bio-based and Applied Economics
Bio-based and Applied Economics
 
Contributor Government of Nigeria and World Bank
 
Date 2014-02-05
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/12713
http://www.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/download/12713/13609
10.13128/BAE-12713
 
Source Bio-based and Applied Economics; Vol 3, No 1 (2014); 45-61
Bio-based and Applied Economics; Vol 3, No 1 (2014); 45-61
2280-6172
2280-6180
 
Language eng
 
Relation 10.13128/BAE-12713