INTRODUCTION Trauma is an increasing cause of mortality worldwide with road traffic accidents (RTAs) causing 1.3 million deaths annually with 90% of this mortality occurring in low and middle income countries. The rise in trauma deaths has been neglected with infectious diseases taking precedence. More research needs to be conducted in resource poor countries to establish the main causes of tra...

BACKGROUND Road traffic accidents (RTAs) are an important public health problem and the collection of local information is central to successful accident initiatives in a district. As the local coroner is responsible for investigating accidental deaths, the coroner's inquest files are a potentially useful source of information in developing a district strategy to reduce accidents. METHODS A c...

In the mid-1990s, the policy debate within the WTO focused on whether regional trade agreements (RTAs) were building blocks or stumbling blocks for the WTO system, essentially questioning whether regionalism was appropriate at all from an economic policy perspective. Given the proliferation of RTAs since that time and the inability to roll back the clock, that policy debate has been replaced by...

When it comes to services traded through the international movement of individuals (mode 4), Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) have increasingly adopted trade-facilitating disciplines that both build upon and innovate GATS framework. By analysing relevant provisions RTAs, we are able identify trends commonalities in approach.

Although a growing number of regional trade agreements (RTAs) include telecommunications provisions, the collection and systematization information on provisions in RTAs remain limited. This paper addresses this gap by mapping reviewing different types found that have been notified to World Trade Organization (WTO).

Based on the first comprehensive mapping of telecommunications provisions in regional trade agreements (RTAs), this paper shows that RTAs have evolved and expanded significantly over years. While some focus information communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure, policy investment, other address services as well standards conformity assessment procedures ICT equipment. The most detailed ar...

We surveyed the empirical literature using multi-country computable general equilibrium (CGE) models to analyse potential and actual regional trade agreements (RTAs). The studies indicate that these RTAs improve welfare, that trade creation greatly exceeds trade diversion, and that they are consistent with further global liberalisation. The welfare gains are bigger when models incorporate aspec...

positive or negative effects on trade depending on their design and implementation. Analysis in this chapter confirms that gains from a preferential trade agreement cannot be taken for granted; moreover, even in agreements with positive impacts on average incomes, not all members are assured of increases. The interesting policy question then is not whether RTAs are categorically good or bad, bu...

The entire society, and particularly the transportation companies, has an interest to improve traffic safety. Besides more than 3000 lost lives on roads every day, there are significant financial consequences of road accidents (RTAs). purpose this article is design efficient model for providing information about driver propensity RTAs based assessing their personality traits. This achieved by c...