Oursuggests, however, that import restrictions on their own are unlikely to yield meaningful, sustained public health and environmental gains.
In fact, these measures can make things worse. They can encourage people to continue using old, polluting and unsafe vehicles. They can also drive the supply of used vehicles to the black market. Our research makes a case for tying used vehicle import bans to reforms in spatial planning, land use systems and transport investments. It makes sense to consider what is stimulating demand for the vehicles.
These policies did not translate into public health and environmental gains. Little to no change occurred in road injuries or vehicular pollution. For instance,
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