Disability and poverty : a global challenge /
Eide, Arne H.,editor.
Ingstad, Benedicte,editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (JSTOR, viewed June 6, 2020).
Disabilities.
Poverty.