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Disability and poverty : a global challenge /

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 a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Eide, Arne H. (Editor ), Ingstad, Benedicte (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : disability and poverty : a global challenge / Benedicte Ingstad and Arne H. Eide
  • The social inclusion of persons with disabilities in poverty reduction policies and instruments : initial impressions from Malawi and Uganda / Margaret Wazakili, Tsitsi Chataika, Gubela Mji, Kudakwashe Dube, Malcolm MacLachlan
  • Disability, poverty and health care : changes in the canji ("disability") policies in the history of the People's Republic of China / Gry Sagli and Heidi Fjeld
  • Living conditions for people with disabilities in developing countries / Arne Eide, Mitch E. Loeb, Sekai Nhiwatiwa, Alister Munthali, Thabale J. Ngulube and Gert van Rooy
  • ''No disabled can go here' : how education affects disability and poverty in Malawi / Stine Hellum Braathen and Mitch E. Loeb
  • "We too are disabled" : disability grants and poverty politics in rural South Africa / Camilla Hansen and Washeila Sait
  • Displacement, mobility and poverty in northern Uganda / Herbert Muyinda and Susan R. Whyte
  • Where culture really matters : disability and well-being in Yemen / Benedicte Ingstad, Arwa Baider, Lisbet Grut
  • Disability and barriers in Kenya / Lisbet Grut, Joyce Olenja, Benedicte Ingstad
  • Disability and social suffering in Zimbabwe / Jennifer Mudzeresi and Benedicte Ingstad
  • "My story started from food shortage and hunger": Living with landmines in Cambodia / Merete Taksdal
  • Poverty as trauma : methodological problems when reality gets ugly / Hans Husum and Odd Edvardsen
  • Epilogue : some concluding thoughts : the way ahead / Arne H. Eide and Benedicte Ingstad.