abstract: 'Two household surveys completed with qualitative interviews were carried

  out in 2013 and 2014 in Morocco and Tunisia, two countries which

  ratified the United Nations convention of the rights of persons with

  disabilities and actively engaged in innovative policies to promote

  those rights. The two surveys look at inequalities among persons with

  disabilities in terms of capabilities, i.e. real opportunities a person

  has to live the life she values. Based on the capability approach of

  Amartya Sen, analysis presented in this study show an important gap in

  terms of education, employment and health related quality of life - a

  somehow more narrow perspective on wellbeing than the one proposed by

  Sen, but nevertheless interesting to compare two populations - for

  persons with disabilities compared to the rest of the population in both

  countries. If the situation seems improved for the new generation

  compared to their parents'' generation, access to education - which is a

  right for children with disabilities in Morocco and Tunisia - is far

  from being secured in both countries. Similarly, access to employment of

  persons with disabilities remains uncertain, in more precarious jobs and

  for lower wages than the rest of the working age population. Social

  exclusion that persons with disabilities face - as shown in the case of

  education and employment - have a considerable cost in terms of health

  related quality of life estimated to be the equivalent of a reduction of

  20 and 18 years, respectively in Morocco and Tunisia, of the average

  life expectancy of persons in good health and without a disability. The

  recent policy against discrimination and for the promotion of the rights

  of the persons with disabilities are going in the right direction but a

  strong political will is required for them to become long term. Civil

  society has an important role to play to keep the current momentum. (C)

  2016 Association ALTER. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights

  reserved.'
affiliation: 'Trani, JF (Corresponding Author), Washington Univ, Brown Sch, Campus
  Box 1196,Goldfarb Hall,Room 243, St Louis, MO 63130 USA.

  Trani, Jean-Francois; Brown, Derek, Washington Univ, Brown Sch, Campus Box 1196,Goldfarb
  Hall,Room 243, St Louis, MO 63130 USA.

  Bakhshi, Parul, Washington Univ, Sch Med, Program Occupat Therapy, St Louis, MO
  63130 USA.

  Gall, Fiona, Agcy Coordinating Body Afghan Relief \& Dev, Kabul, Afghanistan.'
author: Trani, Jean-Francois and Bakhshi, Parul and Lopez, Dominique and Gall, Fiona
  and Brown, Derek
author-email: jtrani@wustl.edu
author_list:
- family: Trani
  given: Jean-Francois
- family: Bakhshi
  given: Parul
- family: Lopez
  given: Dominique
- family: Gall
  given: Fiona
- family: Brown
  given: Derek
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.alter.2016.09.005
eissn: 1875-0680
files: []
issn: 1875-0672
journal: ALTER-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DISABILITY RESEARCH
keywords: 'Capability approach; Disability; Morocco; Social exclusion; Stigma;

  Tunisia'
keywords-plus: CAPABILITY; POVERTY; LIFE
language: French
month: NOV
number: '4'
number-of-cited-references: '44'
orcid-numbers: Brown, Derek S/0000-0001-9908-9882
pages: 215-233
papis_id: fc3340793e17b349fce19d5f1b81d316
ref: Trani2017socioeconomicsituati
researcherid-numbers: 'Trani, Jean-Francois/M-1946-2014

  Brown, Derek S/J-3035-2013'
times-cited: '2'
title: 'Socioeconomic situation of persons with disabilities in Morocco and Tunisia:
  Inequalities, cost and stigma'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000416165400001
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '7'
volume: '11'
web-of-science-categories: Rehabilitation
year: '2017'