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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors survey the World Bank poverty assessment literature to date on the relationship between disability and poverty, and find that using standard assumptions about the distribution of household consumption among household members and the typical way that poverty lines are set in world Bank poverty assessments, this relationship may not appear to be as quantitatively significant as common sense and anecdotal evidence would suggest.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse a documentary about robot pets next to ethnographic material about a particular care technology, and analyse the relations between these technologies and their users, the values that are brought into play and the identities generated in the interaction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the contribution of the Capability Approach of Amartya Sen and other authors to policy making in the specific case of disability policy, and introduce a new measure of functioning and capabilities.

TL;DR: Results from a national, representative survey of living conditions among people with disabilities in Zambia based, in part, on the work of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics that operationalises a functional approach to disability are presented and contrasted with historical census data to illustrate how a flexible approach to the measurement of disability is better suited to the multiple purposes of collecting disability statistics and to the diversity of disability in a population.

TL;DR: A review of the paradigms that address disability and the ways of assessing a person's capability set within this framework can be found in this paper, where the capability set includes not only what a person is effectively able to achieve, but also the potential functionings that he/she can choose.