Groce, NE;
London, J;
Stein, MA;
(2012)
Intergenerational Poverty and Disability: The implications of inheritance policy and practice on persons with disabilities in the developing world.
, Article 17. 10.1080/09687599.2014.969831.
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Abstract
Inheritance is a significant means of transferring wealth from one generation to the next, and therefore increasingly attracts attention from researchers and policy-makers working on intergenerational and multidimensional poverty. However, until now disabled persons have been overlooked in these discussions. This oversight is particularly unfortunate because, as a group, the estimated one billion people with disabilities (some 15% of the world’s population) are among the poorest and most marginalized of the global population. Over the past decade, a small but growing literature has examined the recursive connections between poverty and disability throughout the developing world. In this paper, we argue that disabled individuals are routinely denied inheritance rights in many low-income and middle-income countries, and that this is a significant and largely unrecognized contributor to their indigence. The denial of inheritance is both a social justice issue and a practice that can no longer be overlooked if disabled persons are to be brought into the development mainstream.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Intergenerational Poverty and Disability: The implications of inheritance policy and practice on persons with disabilities in the developing world |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09687599.2014.969831 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2014.969831 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2014 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis This is an Open Access article. Non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed, cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way, is permitted. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. |
| Keywords: | Inheritance, disability, poverty, international development, disabled women, dowry, bridewealth |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1435670 |
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