Poverty Reduction of the Disabled
Title | Poverty Reduction of the Disabled PDF eBook |
Author | Soya Mori |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2024-11-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 104028762X |
A third of poor people are disabled in the developing world. How much do we know about their livelihood with hard data? Are they entirely powerless and dependent on family members? How do they earn income? These questions have become more important than ever, now that persons with disabilities (PWDs) in developing countries have awakened to rights and entitlements and that the international community started considering the incorporation of disability into the context of poverty reduction. This book highlights opportunities and challenges faced by PWDs in the developing countries. This book also illustrates the analyses with a case study which was conducted in the Philippines and this case study has made a good progress in legislation for PWDs. A field survey was jointly conducted by the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan, and the Philippine Institute for Development Studies in Metro Manila, the capital city of the Philippines, in 2008. Around 400 PWDs were interviewed, and the data was investigated with econometrics. The book highlights a remarkable disparity in earnings and education among PWDs. The book also examines the positive role of organizations such as Disabled People’s Organizations and how empowerment of PWDs is made through dissemination of useful information such as programs given by the central and local governments. The book concludes that all measures, i.e. education, training, DPOs and institutional preferences, must be mobilized harmoniously to boost the livelihood of PWDs sinking in the bottom stratum in income.
Disability and Poverty
Title | Disability and Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | Eide, Arne H. |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2011-05-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1847428851 |
This book is about being disabled and being poor and the social, cultural and political processes that link these two aspects of living in what has been characterised as a "vicious circle" (Yeo & Moore 2003). It is also about the strengths that people show when living with disability and being poor. How they try to overcome their problems and making the best out of what little they have. This book will appeal to academics, postgraduates and policymakers in disability studies, development studies, poverty and social exclusion
Community-based Rehabilitation
Title | Community-based Rehabilitation PDF eBook |
Author | World Health Organization |
Publisher | |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9789241548052 |
Volume numbers determined from Scope of the guidelines, p. 12-13.
World Report on Disability
Title | World Report on Disability PDF eBook |
Author | World Health Organization |
Publisher | |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9789241564182 |
The World Report on Disability suggests more than a billion people totally experience disability. They generally have poorer health, lower education and fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities. This report provides the best available evidence about what works to overcome barriers to better care and services.
A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty
Title | A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 619 |
Release | 2019-09-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0309483980 |
The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a well-functioning and prosperous society, yet America's future is not as secure as it could be because millions of American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. A wealth of evidence suggests that a lack of adequate economic resources for families with children compromises these children's ability to grow and achieve adult success, hurting them and the broader society. A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty reviews the research on linkages between child poverty and child well-being, and analyzes the poverty-reducing effects of major assistance programs directed at children and families. This report also provides policy and program recommendations for reducing the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half within 10 years.
Disability, Education and Employment in Developing Countries
Title | Disability, Education and Employment in Developing Countries PDF eBook |
Author | Kamal Lamichhane |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2015-01-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1316272206 |
With several empirical evidences, this book advocates on the importance of human capital of persons with disabilities and demands the paradigm shift from charity into investment approach. Society in general believes that people with disabilities cannot benefit from education, cannot participate in the labour market and cannot be contributing members to families and countries. To invalidate such assumptions, this book describes how education in particular helps make persons with disabilities achieve economic independence and social inclusion. For the first time, detailed analyses of returns to the investment in education and nexus between disability, education, employability and occupational options are discussed. Moreover, other chapters describe disability and poverty followed by the discussion of barriers behind why persons with disabilities are unable to obtain education despite the significantly higher returns. These foundational themes recur throughout the book.
Disability, Liberation, and Development
Title | Disability, Liberation, and Development PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Coleridge |
Publisher | Oxfam |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780855981952 |
Disabled people are marginalized in every country of the world both North and South. By probing these prejudices and studying cases where they have been overcome this book provides an insight into the processes of liberation and empowerment.