This exploratory study aims to highlight the price of excluding people with disabilities from the world of work and the cost to societies.
The groundbreaking study develops and pilot-tests a new approach for quantifying the macroeconomic losses related to exclusion of people with disabilities from workplace. Building on previous research, the study examines the factors underlying these losses.
The new approach was tested using data from a selection of ten low and middle-income developing countries in Asia (China, Thailand, and Viet Nam) and in Africa (Ethiopia, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe). The study concludes that economic losses related to disability are large and measurable, ranging from between 3 and 7 per cent of GDP.
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Sebastian Buckup ; International Labour Office, Employment Sector, Skills and Employability Department.
