Documents & Reports
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Does parental disability matter to child education ? evidence from Vietnam (English)
This paper examines the effect of parental disability on school enrollment and educational performance for children in the 2006 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey. Results from instrumental-variables...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5743 Document Date: August 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cuong,Nguyen Viet,Mont,Daniel M.
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Disability and poverty in Vietnam (English)
Disability is significantly correlated with poverty in Vietnam, according to data from the 2006 Vietnam household living standards survey, especially when the extra costs of living with a disability are...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 81270 Document Date: June 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Mont,Daniel M.,Cuong,Nguyen Viet
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The World Bank economic review 25 (2) (English)
This paper is organized in following headings: has India's economic growth become more pro-poor in the wake of economic reforms?; are the poverty effects of trade policies invisible?; corruption and confidence...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 80517 Document Date: June 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Anderson,Kym,Croser,Johanna Louise,Cuong,Nguyen Viet,Datt,Gaurav,Kraay,Aart C.,Mont,Daniel M.,Newhouse,David Locke,Nyiri, Zsolt,Ravallion,Martin,Suryadarma,Daniel C. J.,Verma, Monika,Yilmazkuday,Hakan
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Beyond disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) : developing indicators to assess the impact of public health interventions on the lives of people with disabilities (English)
This paper proposes two measures for assessing the impact of interventions on the lives of disabled people, the Activity Limitation Score (ALS) and the Participation restriction Score (PRS). These measures...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 44671 Document Date: May 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Mont,Daniel M.,Loeb, Mitchell
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Disability and development in the World Bank : FY2000-2007 (English)
The objectives of this paper are: i) to present the record of World Bank's involvement in disability as part of its overall development strategy; ii) to share with development partners some of the good...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 45178 Document Date: May 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Braithwaite,Jeanine,Carroll,Richard J.,Mont,Daniel M.,Peffley,Karen
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Disability and poverty : a survey of World Bank poverty assessments and implications (English)
In this paper the authors survey the World Bank poverty assessment literature to date on the relationship between disability and poverty.The authors find that using standard assumptions about the distribution...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 42754 Document Date: February 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Braithwaite,Jeanine,Mont,Daniel M.
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Measuring disability prevalence (English)
This paper reviews what is meant by disability and puts forth a way of measuring disability suitable for internationally comparable prevalence rates. The basic trend in this regard is to measure functional...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 39508 Document Date: March 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Mont,Daniel M.
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Disability employment policy (English)
This paper is the first in a series aimed at analyzing disability employment policy, and developing recommendations for policy reform in middle income countries. As the first paper in this series, this...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 30162 Document Date: July 1, 2004 Author: Mont,Daniel M.