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Standard of Living and Disability in Cambodia

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posted on 2018-10-19, 07:58 authored by Michael Palmer, Jenny Williams, Barbara McPake

Little is known about the extra costs faced by households with disabled members in low resource settings and the impact of these costs on living standards. In this paper we estimate the direct cost associated with disability for households in Cambodia. Using the Standard of Living approach, the direct cost associated with having a member with disabilities is estimated to be 19 per cent of monthly household consumption expenditure. Accounting for the direct cost of disability doubles the poverty rate amongst households with disabled members from 18 per cent to 37 per cent, and increases the poverty gap from 3 to 8 per cent. A comparison of the direct cost associated with disability and income support received from government and family sources reveals that only 7 per cent of the costs of disability are met. Our findings suggest that, in the absence of increased coverage of public income support, households with disabled members will continue to experience a lower standard of living compared to households without disability in Cambodia.

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This work was supported by The University of Melbourne under the Faculty of Business and Economics Research Grant and the Melbourne Social Equity Institute Interdisciplinary Seed Grant.

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