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Cornell University ILR School DigitalCommons@ILR GLADNET Collection Gladnet 2011 World Report on Disability, Chapter 8: Work and Employment Cornell University, World Health Organization, World Bank Follow this and additional works at : /gladnetcollect Thank you for downloading an article from DigitalCommons@ILR . Support this valuable resource today ! This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Gladnet at DigitalCommons@ILR . It has been accepted for inclusion in GLADNET Collection by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@ILR . For more information, please contact hlmdigital@. World Report on Disability, Chapter 8: Work and Employment Abstract Across the world, people with disabilities are entrepreneurs and selfemployed workers, farmers and factory workers, doctors and teachers, shop assistants and bus drivers, artists, and computer technicians (1). Almost all jobs can be performed by someone with a disability, and given the right environment, most people with disabilities can be productive. But as documented by several studies, both in developed and developing countries, working age persons with disabilities experience significantly lower employment rates and much higher unemployment rates than persons without disabilities (2–9). Lower rates of labour market participation are one of the important pathways through which disability may lead to poverty (10–15). In Article 27 the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) “recognizes the right of persons with disabilities to work, on an equal basis with others; this includes the opportunity to gain a living by work freely chosen or accepted in a labour market and work environment that is open, inclusive and accessible