Disability and poverty are dynamic and intricately linked phenomena. In developed countries, a large body of empirical … disabilities and their households in 2003 in the countries under study, it can inform national disability policies. Finally, this … study can also inform future data and research efforts on disability in developing countries. This study is structured as …

bilateral development agencies, aimed at including disability in development. Development that includes disability, as … beneficiaries. It can be achieved by disability specific initiatives, by adding disability-specific components to development … programs, by fully inclusive programming, designed to include disability concerns into all development processes, or by a …

The objectives of this paper are: i) to present the record of World Bank's involvement in disability as part of its … the further mainstreaming of disability into the work of the Bank. The Bank's comparative advantage in supporting … disability interventions lies in its capacity to address complex, multi-sectoral issues in a consistent, coordinated, fiscally …

disability and poverty.The authors find that using standard assumptions about the distribution of household consumption among … typically do not include any questions about the disability status of household members. Only in one region of the Bank's work …

In order to answer the questions of (a) what is the true pattern of disability in Kazakhstan; (b) whether the incidence … of disability is decreasing; and (c) what is the life expectancy of Kazakhstan's disabled, this paper attempts first to … create an historical picture of disability in Kazakhstan by analyzing government population statistics and studying the …

Health Organization's (WHO's) International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and the social model … of disability. The authors believe these measures can become important tools in monitoring the implementation of the … follows: after briefly describing the social model of disability and the ICF, the authors present a series of indicators for …