Disability, education and employment in developing countries : from charity to investment / Kamal Lamichhane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamichhane, Kamal, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--Asia.

People with disabilities.

People with disabilities--Education--Asia.

People with disabilities--Employment--Asia.

People with disabilities--Employment.

People with disabilities--Education.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 271 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Other Title:

Disability, education & employment in developing countries

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781107565265

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.