Disability and poverty are dynamic andintricately linked phenomena. In developed countries, alarge body of empirical research shows that persons withdisabilities experience inter alia comparatively lowereducational attainment, lower employment and higherunemployment rates, worse living conditions, and higherpoverty rates. This study aims to contribute to theempirical research on social and economic conditions ofpeople with disabilities in developing countries. Usingcomparable data and methods across countries, this studypresents a snapshot of economic and poverty situation ofworking-age persons with disabilities and their householdsin fifteen developing countries. This research is relevantfor several reasons. First, it contributes to a currentlysmall body of empirical evidence on the economic status ofpersons with disabilities in developing countries. Second,by providing a baseline data on the economic well-being andthe poverty status of working-age persons with disabilitiesand their households in 2003 in the countries under study,it can inform national disability policies. Finally, thisstudy can also inform future data and research efforts ondisability in developing countries. This study is structuredas follows. Section two provides definitions and somebackground on disability and poverty. Section threedescribes the data and methods. Section four presentsdisability prevalence estimates in the fifteen developingcountries under study and results on the economic well-beingof working-age population at the individual and householdlevels. Section five gives results of an analysis ofmultidimensional poverty across disability status. Sectionsix concludes definitions and some background information ondisability and poverty, describes some of the linkagesbetween them and reviews recent literature on thesocioeconomic status of persons with disability.
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