Review of National Policies for rural roads in countries with developing economies

This report aims to provide information to road infrastructure managers about best practices for sustainable rural road maintenance in all countries, but especially for the countries of Asia, Africa and Central and South America with developing economies. Committee members have the opinion that the GDP per capita is not a good indicator of development for several reasons: first, the expenses related to events (erosion, floods, earthquakes, etc.), expenses related to traffic accidents determine higher costs. All emergency measures taken accordingly to reduce hydrogeological risk (landslides and network failures) will increase global GDP, but this does not mean that the country has a growing economy.