Economic Opportunities for Differently-abled
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), around 15% of the global population, or an estimated 1 billion people, live with disabilities, and 80% of this PwD (Persons with Disabilities) population resides in developing nations. It is also estimated that 6% of India’s population (roughly 72 million) suffers from some form of disability or the other, and notably only around 3-4 million of these are educated.
- Without doubt, the disabled represent the world’s largest minority. However, there is a key geographical difference here – 90% of children with disabilities in developing countries like India do not attend schools and are grossly ....
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Economic Development
- 1 The North-South Divide: Key Issues
- 2 The North-South Economic Divide
- 3 Fifteenth Finance Commission
- 4 Implications of Special Levies
- 5 The Goods & Service Tax
- 6 Recent Trends in Central Transfer to States
- 7 The Finance Commission
- 8 Centre-State Financial Relations: Indian Context
- 9 Exclusion in Panchayat Elections
- 10 Does Reservation Policy Need Reform
- 11 Are Tribals Really Benefitting from the Forest Rights Act
- 12 Why Transgenders are Considered as Vulnerable
- 13 Climate Refugee & International Convention
- 14 Climate Refugees in The Indian Subcontinent
- 15 Inequality in Urban India
- 16 Urban Poverty in India
- 17 Urban Development & Transformation
- 18 Inclusive Urbanisation and SDGs