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 and being poor. How they try to overcome their problems and making the best out of what little they have. This book will appeal to academics, postgraduates and policymakers in disability studies, development studies, poverty and social exclusion.

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 …