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Gender, rights and the disability grant in South Africa

Goldblatt, Beth - In: Development Southern Africa 26 (2009) 3, pp. 369-382

South Africa's disability grant is critical for the survival of many disabled people and their families, and is … disability theory offers a useful framework for understanding the needs of disabled women in South Africa's social assistance … system. This paper sets out the findings of a study of the disability grant system in two provinces in South Africa. It …

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Transport expenditure and affordability: The cost of being mobile

Venter, Christoffel - In: Development Southern Africa 28 (2011) 1, pp. 121-140

Measuring and understanding the transport expenditure patterns of households and individuals is critically important for formulating pro-poor transport policies, as well as for monitoring their effectiveness. This paper reviews evidence on transport expenditure and affordability in South Africa,...

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Disabling Health Care? Medicaid Managed Care and People with Disabilities in America

Hiranandani, Vanmala S. - In: Poverty & Public Policy 3 (2011) 2, pp. 7-7

reasonably representative of the experiences of disabled Medicaid beneficiaries given the cross-disability nature of the sample …

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Supplemental Security Income for the Second Decade

Wiseman, Michael - In: Poverty & Public Policy 3 (2011) 1, pp. 6-6

<p>Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is an odd combination of income support for families with disabled children, disabled working-age adults, and elderly persons with inadequate retirement incomes. Less than three percent of Americans receive SSI payments. The program faces challenges on all...</p>

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Two-sample estimation of poverty rates for disabled people : an application to Tanzania

Fujii, Tomoki - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

not available. We develop two methods to estimate poverty by the disability status of the household head. We extend the …'s disability status even when such information is unavailable in the survey. We do so by aggregation and by moment adjusted two … sample instrumental variable estimation. Our results from Tanzania show that both methods work well, and that disability is …

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THE TOURISM BARRIERS OF THE DISABLED

Carmen, Babaita; Andreea, Nagy; Viorel, Filep Adrian - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2011) special, pp. 201-205

This article seeks to address a very sensitive issue in Romania, the disabled tourism. The natural question is whether tourism can respond and meet the needs of such people. Internationally, the researches in detail about tourism for people with disabilities are limited in this direction, and...

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Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011

JEL Cl This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores the determinants of unemployment. We compare different countries, finding that unemployment is influenced by the size of the rural population and that the effects of government...

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The Captain of the Men of Death and His Shadow: Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure

Bhalotra, Sonia; Venkataramani, Atheendar - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2011

reductions in disability rates. These improvements were larger for those born in states with higher pre-intervention levels of …, larger and more robust to specification for men than for women. With the exception of cognitive disability and poverty for …

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Dynamic Modelling of Ageing and Health: The Dynopta Microsimulation Model

Brown, Laurie; Nepal, Binod; Booth, Heather; Pennec, Sophie - National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling … - 2011

over in 1996. The number of individuals in various states of disability, and the length of time spent in these states prior …

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Predicting the need for aged care services at the small area level: the CAREMOD spatial microsimulation model

Lymer, Sharyn; Brown, Laurie; Harding, Ann; Yap, Mandy - In: International Journal of Microsimulation 2 (2009) 2, pp. 27-42

Wales, a state of Australia. It details the methods involved in reweighting the 1998 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers … disability estimates arising from this process are then discussed. …

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