The price of exclusion: the economic consequences of excluding people with disabilities from the world of work
The study breaks ground in developing and pilot-testing a new approach to quantifying the macroeconomic losses related to exclusion of people with disabilities from workplace. Its innovative approach was tested using data from ten low and middle-income developing countries in Asia (China, Thailand and Viet Nam) and in Africa (Ethiopia, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe). It concludes that economic losses related to disability are large and measurable, ranging from between 3 and 7 per cent of GDP.