Road safety and public health: the cost of treating and rehabilitating the injured in Chile, Colombia and Peru

This issue of the FAL Bulletin examines the implications of road safety for the health-care system. It focuses on the economic cost of treating and rehabilitating road traffic injury victims and, for the sake of better public policy, proposes policy changes aimed at improving data collection as well as coordination among government agencies.

Ageing, solidarity and social protection in Latin America and the Caribbean: time for progress towards equality

Includes bibliography

Estimating the effects of United States food safety and agricultural health standards on agro-food exports from Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Fiscal policy and social protection

Includes bibliography

Ageing, solidarity and social protection: time for progress towards equality. Third Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean, San José, 8-11 May 2012

This publication summarizes the "Report on application of the Brasilia Declaration and the Regional Strategy for the Implementation in Latin America and the Caribbean of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing", which will be presented at the Third Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean, to be held in San José from 8 to 11 May 2012.

The contribution of women to the economy and social protection specially in relation to unpaid work performed by women in the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Ageing and the protection of human rights: Current situation and outlook

Includes Bibliography

Population ageing, intergenerational transfers and social protection in Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Labour and migration: protection is paramount

Includes bibliography

Public policies and the competitiveness of agricultural exports

Includes bibliography

Public institutions and explicit and implicit environmental policies

Includes bibliography

How domestic violence came to be viewed as a public issue and policy object

Includes bibliography

Fiscal policy and social protection in Chile

Includes bibliography

Consensus and dissension among Mexican economists

Includes bibliography

Colombia: public capital and manufacturing productivity

Includes bibliography