Extra Costs of Disability and Capabilities: Which Policies?

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Journal	RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE SOCIALI
Issue	RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE SOCIALI - 2022 - 2. A Special Issue on “Economics of Disability”
Title	Extra Costs of Disability and Capabilities: Which Policies?
Author	Maurizio Franzini
Publisher	Vita e Pensiero
Format	Article \| Pdf
Online da	06-2022
Doi	10.26350/000518_000096
Issn	0035-676X (print) \| 1827-7918 (digital)

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People with disabilities incur significant costs that can prevent them and their families from achieving a decent standard of living. These extra costs have recently attracted interest, and beyond the problems of defining and measuring them, they can first and foremost contribute to a better understanding of the world of disability and, in particular, the relationship between disability and poverty. The first part of this article is devoted to analysing this relationship. Extra costs can also help us design more effective and efficient disability policies. Using an approach based on capabilities and their relation to the standard of living, the second part of the article addresses this issue. keywords Disability, Capabilities, Extra costs, Poverty. Author biography Maurizio Franzini, Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Rome. Email: maurizio.franzini@uniroma1.it.

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People with disabilities incur significant costs that can prevent them and their families from achieving a decent standard of living. These extra costs have recently attracted interest, and beyond the problems of defining and measuring them, they can first and foremost contribute to a better understanding of the world of disability and, in particular, the relationship between disability and poverty. The first part of this article is devoted to analysing this relationship. Extra costs can also help us design more effective and efficient disability policies. Using an approach based on capabilities and their relation to the standard of living, the second part of the article addresses this issue.