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Record Nr.

UNISA996509970603316

Titolo

Disability and poverty : a global challenge / / edited by Arne H. Eide and Benedicte Ingstad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, England : , : Policy Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-4473-0206-0

1-84742-886-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Disciplina

362.4

Soggetti

Disabilities

Poverty

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Introduction Disability and poverty:a global challenge; 1 Social inclusion of people with disabilities in poverty reduction policies and instruments: initial impressions from Malawi and Uganda; 2 Disability, poverty and healthcare: changes in the canji ('disability')policies in the history of the People's Republic of China; 3 Living conditions among people with disabilities in developing countries; 4 "No disabled can go here...":how education affects disabilityand poverty in Malawi

5 "We too are disabled": disability grants and poverty politics in rural South Africa6 Displacement, mobility and poverty in northern Uganda; 7 Where culture really matters: disability and well-being in Yemen; 8 Disability and barriers in Kenya; 9 Disability and social suffering in Zimbabwe; 10 "My story started from food shortage and hunger": living with landmines in Cambodia; 11 Poverty as trauma: methodological problems when reality gets ugly; Epilogue Some concluding thoughts: the way ahead; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the lived realities of people with disabilities from across the developing world and examines how the coping strategies of individuals and families emerge in different contexts.