Abstract:
Disability is a normal phenomenon in the sense that it exists in all societies,
affecting predictable and identifiable proportions of each population. Disability
activities are economic activities, which generate economic output and income just
like other economic activities. Nevertheless, expenditures on disability are
typically viewed as constituting an economic burden. This likely stems from the
fact that most expenditures on disability have traditionally come either from
government budgets, making them burdensome to taxpayers, or charitable
remittances, making them charity, which necessarily implies a burden. Integrating
disabled people into the labor force in a productive manner is a challenging but
important step. Empowerment is all about giving official authority to an individual
to do something and/or promoting the self-actualization or influence of someone
by making someone stronger and more confident. Development oriented disability
empowerment policies, programs and strategies are those that seek to reduce the
economic costs of disability by increasing the functionality of people with
disabilities and reducing the barriers that impede their access to social and
economic opportunities. This research has attempted to study the available
opportunities to empower disables and to identify the issues which are significant
threat to empowering disables which in turn increase the cost of families with
disabled persons and government expenditure to protect these disabled persons.
