Disability, Education and Employment in Developing Countries
From Charity to Investment

The book describes how education in particular helps make persons with disabilities achieve economic independence and social inclusion.

Kamal Lamichhane (Author)

9781107064065, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 January 2015

286 pages
23.7 x 16 x 2.6 cm, 0.59 kg

With several empirical evidences, this book advocates on the importance of human capital of persons with disabilities and demands the paradigm shift from charity into investment approach. Society in general believes that people with disabilities cannot benefit from education, cannot participate in the labour market and cannot be contributing members to families and countries. To invalidate such assumptions, this book describes how education in particular helps make persons with disabilities achieve economic independence and social inclusion. For the first time, detailed analyses of returns to the investment in education and nexus between disability, education, employability and occupational options are discussed. Moreover, other chapters describe disability and poverty followed by the discussion of barriers behind why persons with disabilities are unable to obtain education despite the significantly higher returns. These foundational themes recur throughout the book.

List of tables
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the author
1. Fundamentals of disability studies
2. Disability and the global employment situation
3. Disability and the role of education in jobs: case studies from Nepal and the Philippines
4. Disability and jobs in a post-conflict country: Cambodia
5. Gender and job: a comparison between people with and without disabilities in Bangladesh
6. Disability and human capital investment
7. Disability, poverty and inequality: a case study in Nepal
8. Disability and job satisfaction differentials
9. Disability and determinants of education: a case from India
10. Disability and barriers to education
11. The way forward: investment in disability.

Subject Areas: Human rights & civil liberties law [LNDC], Law [L], Human rights [JPVH], Population & demography [JHBD]