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dc.creatorMartínez, Sebastián
dc.creatorSánchez, Raúl
dc.creatorYáñez-Pagans, Patricia
dc.date.issued2019-11-18
dc.identifier.issn2196-436X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11651/4036
dc.descriptionRoad safety, road traffic accidents, road fatalities, Latin America and the Caribbean
dc.description.abstractAn estimated 1.3 million people die in traffic accidents each year worldwide and millions more are injured, with developing countries disproportionately affected. It is predicted that the number of global traffic deaths will be around 1.8 million annually by 2030, making it the eight cause of death in the world. This paper provides an overview of salient road safety issues in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region. It also reviews existing theoretical and causal empirical evidence of interventions to improve road safety outcomes, concentrating on three core areas: safer roads and mobility, safer vehicles, and safer road users. Despite the existence of potentially cost-effective and life-saving interventions, there is surprisingly little rigorous evidence on the effectiveness of road safety programs in the LAC context. This paper discusses promising areas for policy experimentation and future research.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCentro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
dc.relation.ispartofLatin American Economic Review, volumen 28, número 1, noviembre de 2019
dc.rightsLa revista Latin American Economic Review autoriza a poner en acceso abierto de conformidad con las licencias CREATIVE COMMONS, aprobadas por el Consejo Académico Administrativo del CIDE, las cuales establecen los parámetros de difusión de las obras con fines no comerciales. Lo anterior sin perjuicio de los derechos morales que corresponden a los autores.
dc.source2196-436X
dc.titleRoad safety: challenges and opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean
dc.typeArtículo
dc.accessrightsAcceso abierto
dc.recordIdentifier000004036
dc.rights.licenseCreative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND
dc.relation.project“Inter-american Development Bank”
dc.identifier.citationEn: Latin American Economic Review, volumen 28, número 1, noviembre de 2019
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1186/s40503-019-0078-0
dc.relation.dataset“http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wiqars”
dc.identifier.urlhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40503-019-0078-0


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