Abstract
Despite rapid urbanisation, developing countries are predominantly rural, with more than 55 per cent of the world’s population living in rural areas (IFAD 2011: 3). At least 70 per cent of the world’s very poor people—that is, those living on less than US$1.25 a day—and those with the most insecure livelihoods are rural people (IFAD 2011: 3). While the structural disadvantages associated with rural spaces, such as disparities in access to basic health, education and other services, are widely documented (Sen 1999), insufficient attention is given to how and why these disadvantages are amplified once disability is brought into the picture. Limited research examines the intersections between rurality and disability, and the diversities and forms of disadvantage that emerge with this spatial relationship.
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The World Bank (2013: 94) defines the total poverty line as equal to the food (extreme) poverty line plus an allowance for a minimum amount of non-food goods and services (housing, clothes, personal goods, entertainment and so forth). Determining the minimum amount of goods and services is done indirectly as there is no universally agreed-upon minimum.
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Pseudonyms are used in all interview quotes.
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Gartrell, A., Hoban, E. (2016). ‘Locked in Space’: Rurality and the Politics of Location. In: Grech, S., Soldatic, K. (eds) Disability in the Global South. International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42488-0_21
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