Standard of Living and Disability in Cambodia

Michael Palmer (), Jenny Williams and Barbara McPake

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Abstract: 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% of monthly household consumption expenditure. Accounting for the direct cost of disability doubles the poverty rate amongst households with disabled members from 18% to 37%, 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.

Keywords: disability; standard of living approach; cambodia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I15 I32 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-08
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