The qualitative evidence suggests that disabled people are significantly poor in developing countries, and more so than non-disabled counterpart. It is therefore essential that disabled people are included in development efforts in order to improve the economic and human welfare of millions of poor people in the developing world.
Disabled people are often excluded from school or the workplace and are forced to depend on others in the family and community for physical and economic support. In addition to being acutely vulnerable to such exclusion, disabled people are disproportionately poor, and poor people are disproportionately disabled. The Millennium Development Goals, a commitment of the international community to expand the vision of development, cannot be achieved without taking into consideration the needs of persons with disabilities.
World Bank's Disability Work
The World Bank not only finances development projects involving disability components - such as in education, health care, infrastructure, employment, de-institutionalization, children and youth - but also works in a wide variety of disability-related fields, such as data collection and statistics, research and analysis, technical assistance and knowledge sharing.
These activities will have an impact upon disabled people, their family, or their organizations. Applying a disability lens to all Bank projects, and making them inclusive of everyone, will eventually improve the prospects of poor disabled people in developing countries.
The qualitative evidence suggests that disabled people are significantly poor in developing countries, and more so than non-disabled counterpart. It is therefore essential that disabled people are included in development efforts in order to improve the economic and human welfare of millions of poor people in the developing world.
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