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

• Pubblicazione: Bristol, England : , : Policy Press, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.4
• Soggetto topico: Disabilities; Poverty
• Persona (resp. second.): EideArne H.; IngstadBenedicte
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Disability and poverty
• ISBN: 1-4473-0206-0; 1-84742-886-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996509970603316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno