Center for Inclusive Policy Mont - Dis and Dev Alberto Vásquez This article examines the original purpose for the DACF. #DACF #SocialProtection .

This article about persons with disabilities experience with the Ghana district assemblies common fund was the project of one of our great fellows, Alimata Karimu journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… Alberto Vásquez

UK, France, Italy and Germany study shows clear link between poverty and severe disability cross-nationally, but highest in the UK link.springer.com/article/10.100… Tom Shakespeare

China study shows nearly half of the disability wage gap is from discrimination, & the rest from productivity differentials --but I'd add that those productivity differentials may be the result of past discrimination in education or just socially onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Happy to have had the chance to talk about disability, poverty and social protection to grad students at Georgetown University's Global Human Development Program the other day. It was great to see them so engaged with the topic.

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Monica Pinilla Roncancio and I are co-editing an issue of Disabilities that focuses on the care economy and disability inclusion. You can read about it here, and please consider submitting your research in this area. Alberto Vásquez

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In Belize, overseeing the testing of the UNICEF Child Functioning Module - Teacher Version, funded by IADB. The Ministry of Education is working to improve their data on children with disabilities and also data on the school environment.

A new OHCHR report, 'Good practices of support systems enabling community inclusion of persons with disabilities ' is out. Prepared with assistance of CIP @centerforinclu1 documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/…

Report from Paraguay on use of Washington Group questions in a hospital setting to identify disability ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Check out the latest blog on the Washington Group website. This one from guest-blogger Robert Buluma from Kenya on their housing survey washingtongroup-disability.com/wg-blog/empowe…

This came out a couple years ago, but it arose in something I read today, so I thought I'd repost it -- Zach Morris Jennifer Madans, and I wrote on indicators measuring autonomy -- an important issue for people with disabilities.

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Happy to be named to the Editorial Board of Global Health and Sustainability.

There are videos on social protection, the Washington Group Questions, healthcare and more

The US Census Bureau's proposal to change their questions on disability are controversial. NPR interviewed me, but didn't capture the main points I was trying to make. Here are my thoughts on the proposed changes versus the current questions. inclusive-policy.org/data/the-unite…

Study from Qatar shows the large and varied expenses required to ensure children with disabilities get the goods and services they require qscience.com/content/journa…

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Check out our latest blog on the US Census Bureau's proposal to use the Washington Group Questions on Disability

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