This paper deals with how social safety nets may reach the poor with disabilities in developing countries. It presents a framework for analyzing the inclusion of disability in social safety nets. The paper first reviews evidence on the relation between disability and poverty, and discusses the...

This special issue of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities focuses on two areas of substantial and growing importance to the human development and capability approach: disability and health. The research on disability, health and the capability approach has been diverse in the...

Through a series of focus group discussions conducted in northern and central Vietnam, this study gives voice to the lived economic experience of families with disabilities and how they manage the economic challenges associated with disability. The dynamic of low and unstable income combined...

The Disability Data Initiative (ddi) is a new initiative that aims to review the availability of disability data in national censuses and household surveys and analyzes such data when disability questions are internationally comparable. Its 2021 Disability Data Report provides (i) a systematic...

This paper examines differences in employment rates between persons with and without disabilities in 15 developing countries using the World Health Survey. We find that people with disabilities have lower employment rates than persons without disabilities in nine countries. Across countries,...

This paper is the first to estimate the magnitude and determinants of a wage differential by disability status in the context of an agrarian labor market through a wage decomposition method. In rural Uttar Pradesh, India, we find evidence of an unexplained wage gap in favor of non-disabled men...

This paper shows that there has been a significant decline in the employment and labor force participation of persons with disabilities in South Africa over the 1998 through 2006 period. Disability is defined based on activity limitations. Data are from the October and the General Household...

Objective: This paper examines whether disability is a correlate of poverty when poverty is measured using (1) the official poverty measure; (2) the supplemental poverty measure (SPM); and (3) two newly created multidimensional poverty measures. Methods: Data from the Current Population Survey is...

Realizing the rights of persons with disabilities Achieving rights as stipulated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires quality, timely and policy-relevant disability data. This Report first reviews...