Disability and Poverty: Uncovering the Empirical Dynamics

HD Learning Week
November 10, 2003

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1. Why are we here?
   • Gain a better understanding of what is meant by "disability"
   • Explore the relationship between poverty and disability
   • Learn about the challenges of doing empirical work on disability
     
     
2. Today’s Program
   • Introduction
   • General overview
     -Epidemiology
     - Relation to poverty
     - Potential utility of LSMS
   • Case studies
     -Mental health in Bosnia
     -Household survey in Indonesia
     -Poverty Mapping in Uganda
     
     
3. Who are disabled people?
   The United Nations census recommendations state a person with disability is defined as
   A person who is limited in the kind or amount of activities that he or she can do because of ongoing difficulties due to a long-term physical condition, mental condition, or health problem (United Nations, 1998)
   There are 400 million disabled people in developing countries
   
   
4. What causes disability?
   • Malnutrition
   • Poor maternal health
   • Child birth
   • Vehicular crashes
   • Work injuries
   • Conflict
   • Illness – e.g., TB, polio, measles, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, etc.
     
     
5. World Bank and disability – What is the link?
   • Successful implementation of the MDG’s results in the prevention of disability and increased productivity for disabled people
   • Two-way causality between disability and poverty
   • Disabled people are disproportionately poor, and poor people are disproportionately disabled
   • Doing a good job on poverty alleviation requires taking disabled people into account
     
     
6. Disability and Poverty – Research Concerns
   • The definition of disability is complex
   • Different definitions and different data collection methodologies yield different rates
   • Data on disability often not collected, or at least not given proper attention
     
     
7. Prevalence of Disabil)ity in Selected Countries
   Bangladesh 0.8 %(Percent of Population Disabled)
   Niger 1.3
   Egypt 4.4
   Italy 5.0
   Germany 8.4
   United States 15.0
   Australia 18.0
   
   
8. International Efforts to Obtain Comparable Data
   
   • UNSD study on disability data collection |
   • DISTAT-II
   • Washington City Group on Disability Measurement
     
     
9. Needed: Empirical Work on Disability
   • Data on prevalence
   • Relation to poverty, income, health, and education
   • Understanding of the dynamics between disability and poverty

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