Sarris considers the benefit to agricultural producers of commodity price insurance that provides in every year - but in advance of the resolution of production and price uncertainty - a minimum price for a fixed or variable portion of production. Under the assumption that producers do not...

The paper provides a methodology which is suitable for the analysis of the social cost of disease and the benefits and cost of health intervention by integrating public health analysis and economics. The approach developed in the paper is applied to food-borne diarrhea in Rwanda. The results...