Benefits and Costs of Compliance of Sanitary Regulations in Livestock Markets: The Case of Rift Valley Fever in the Somali Region of EthiopiaILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD), 2005 M01 1 - 67 pages This study looks at the impact the ban on livestock exports from the Horn of Africa had on the livestock dependent economy of Somali Region in Ethiopia. To analyse the economy-wide effects of the ban, a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) of the Somali Region economy was built. SAM is a comprehensive data framework representing the economy, where different economic agents, institutions (households, producers, government etc.), and flows of commodities and money between these agents are represented in the format of a square matrix. |
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34 Households activities Addis Ababa agro-pastoralists and sedentary Agro-pastoralists Poor Ahrens animal health programme animal sales animals sold Arab countries ban on exports ban on livestock benefit-cost ratio Berbera better-off households Better-off Poor Middle better-off producers camels Central Statistical Authority Children UK collecting ground commodities consumption Dire Dawa Djibouti domestic effects Ethiopia Ethiopian highlands export quality factor grain Horn of Africa household type impact investment Jijiga Jijiga zone Kenya labour live animals livestock exports livestock market livestock products livestock sales low quality medium-run middle and better-off Middle Better-off Poor million number of animals Office of Population Pastoralist-better-off Pastoralist-poor Poor Middle Better-off poor pastoralists poor producers purchase quarantine Rift Valley fever Sales tax Save the Children scenario Sedentary farmers Poor Sedentary-middle Sedentary-poor Shinile shoats short-run Somali National Regional Somali Region Region Table total value trade transaction costs Transport urban households vaccination value added wealth categories