Access to Credits and Erosive or Non-erosive Coping Strategies: An Empirical Analysis in Bangladesh

Ahmed, Meherun; Chowdhury, Iftekhar Uddin; Mohona, Sabiha Subah

doi:10.17015/ejbe.2017.019.01

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“…These responses to disability, as documented in development literature [30], turned out to be 'erosive coping strategies', because they were: unsustainable; undermined further resilience; weakened defence against future shocks; led to reductions in consumption and assets; and intensified the breadth and trap of poverty for all and likely across generations to come. Overall, these responses and the respective impacts transform these families into what are best described as 'disabled families'.…”

Section: Reacting To Disability: Erosive Responses and Entrapment In mentioning

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Disabled Families: The Impacts of Disability and Care on Family Labour and Poverty in Rural Guatemala

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2019

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An increasing body of literature has started to look at how disability impacts and shifts poverty in the global South in and through a range of areas, including health, education, and livelihoods. However, much of this research is limited to disabled individuals, while qualitative research focusing on and articulating the circumstances, needs and demands of rural families remains scarce, especially research focusing on Latin America. This paper reports on a qualitative study looking at how disability affects family labouring patterns in rural Guatemala, with a special focus on women carers of people with acquired physical impairments, in the bid to contribute to a more inclusive understanding of the disability and poverty relationship and its gendered dimensions. Findings highlight how in rural communities already living in dire poverty, the fragmentation of labour input of the disabled person, costs (notably health care) and intensified collective poverty, push fragile families with no safety nets into a set of dynamic responses in the bid to ensure survival of the family unit. These include harder and longer work patterns, interruption of paid labour, and/or induction into exploitative and perilous labour, not only for women, but also children. These responses are erosive and have severe personal, social, cultural and economic consequences, strengthening a deep, multidimensional, chronic and intergenerational impoverishment, transforming these families into ‘disabled families’, among the poorest of the poor. This paper concludes that research, policy and services need to move beyond the disabled individual to understand and address the needs and demands of whole families, notably women, and safeguard their livelihoods, because ultimately, these are the units that singlehandedly care for and ensure the well-being and survival of disabled people. It is also within these units that disability is constructed, shaped, and can ultimately be understood.

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Section: Reacting To Disability: Erosive Responses and Entrapment In mentioning

confidence: 99%

Disabled Families: The Impacts of Disability and Care on Family Labour and Poverty in Rural Guatemala

Grech¹

2019

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Welfare shocks, coping strategies and safety nets: a study on rural households of Cachar District, Assam

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Nath

2024

J. Soc. Econ. Dev.

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Coping with the economic effects of COVID-19: an evidence from the Bangladesh labour market

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Access to Credits and Erosive or Non-erosive Coping Strategies: An Empirical Analysis in Bangladesh

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Cited by 5 publications

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Disabled Families: The Impacts of Disability and Care on Family Labour and Poverty in Rural Guatemala

Disabled Families: The Impacts of Disability and Care on Family Labour and Poverty in Rural Guatemala

Welfare shocks, coping strategies and safety nets: a study on rural households of Cachar District, Assam

Coping with the economic effects of COVID-19: an evidence from the Bangladesh labour market

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