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This book is about being disabled and being poor and the social, cultural and political processes that link these two aspects of living. Environmental barriers, limited access to services and discriminatory attitudes and practice are among key elements that drive disabled people into poverty and kee...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Eide, Arne H., Ingstad, Benedicte
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, U.K. : Policy Press, 2011.
Temas:
Disabilities.
Poverty.
Handicap.
Pauvreté.
poverty.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities.
Disabilities
Poverty
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of tables
  • Notes on contributors
  • Introduction Disability and poverty:a global challenge
  • Disability and poverty
  • Poverty dimensions
  • The disability concept
  • The vicious circle of disability and poverty
  • Overcoming poverty for people with a disability
  • Research on poverty and disability
  • Ethics
  • 1 Social inclusion of people with disabilities in poverty reduction policies and instruments: initial impressions from Malawi and Uganda
  • Introduction
  • Disability and social inclusion
  • Disability and the MDGs
  • Policy instruments for addressing poverty.
  • Getting disability on the policy agenda
  • PRSP process in Malawi
  • PRSP process in Uganda
  • Conclusion
  • 2 Disability, poverty and healthcare: changes in the canji ('disability')policies in the history of the People's Republic of China
  • Introduction
  • Interconnectedness of statistics and disability definitions
  • Disability and the family in the PRC
  • Birth of the canji ('disability') policy of the party-state
  • Limits of market economy and the new welfare reform
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Living conditions among people with disabilities in developing countries
  • Introduction.
  • Studies on living conditions in southern Africa
  • Results from the national representative studies
  • Conclusion
  • 4 "No disabled can go here ... ":how education affects disabilityand poverty in Malawi
  • Background
  • Methodologies
  • Results
  • Conclusion
  • 5 "We too are disabled": disability grants and poverty politics in rural South Africa
  • Introduction
  • Broad and narrow definitions of disability
  • Poverty and the history of apartheid
  • Comprehensive Social Security System and disability grants
  • Two phases of development after apartheid
  • Disability as discrimination.
  • Conceptualising disability in the rural surroundings of Mthatha, Eastern Cape
  • Ubuntu and self-representations
  • The third story: 'Having fits' challenges of defining disability
  • Conclusion: New democracy, poverty and disability agency
  • 6 Displacement, mobility and poverty in northern Uganda
  • Displacement and poverty
  • Inappropriate planning
  • Lack of mobility devices
  • Sanitation and reduced personhood
  • Stigma and aid policy
  • Forced urban life
  • Conclusions
  • 7 Where culture really matters: disability and well-being in Yemen
  • Introduction
  • Methodology.
  • Disability and poverty: a theoretical approach
  • "This is my life": barriers to integration in Yemen
  • Environment
  • Conclusions
  • 8 Disability and barriers in Kenya
  • Interrelationship between poverty and disability: a double exclusion
  • Methodology and empirical basis for the study
  • Disability in a Kenyan context
  • Issues of particular relevance to this study
  • Organised care for people with disabilities
  • Barriers: lessons learned from the fieldwork
  • Collected sum of the many barriers that influence daily life
  • The household as a resource system.

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