Disability, politics and poverty in a majority world context

@article{Barnes2010DisabilityPA,
  title={Disability, politics and poverty in a majority world context},
  author={Colin Barnes and Alison Sheldon},
  journal={Disability \& Society},
  year={2010},
  volume={25},
  pages={771 - 782}
}
This paper argues that the spread of free market economics throughout the world has generated unprecedented inequalities within and between nation states. This has led to the systematic exclusion of people with perceived impairments from the mainstream of economic and community life in almost all societies, the generation of an international disabled people’s movement, and their demand for legal frameworks with which to address the multiple deprivations encountered by people viewed as ‘disabled… 
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