Post Tagged with: "Wealth and Poverty"

The Wealth and Poverty curricular theme is now listed in the Library’s subject guides at libguides.library.ohiou.edu/wealth-poverty. From the Library homepage, click on Resources/Subject & Course Guides/Interdisciplinary/Wealth and Poverty). “Special thanks go to Araba Dawson-Andoh of Alden Library for creating this site and to the many faculty members who shared their […]

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The Wealth and Poverty theme’s 2014-15 Documentary Film Screening Series brings Robert Reich’s Inequality for All– A Passionate Argument on behalf of the Middle Class to Ohio University on Oct. 16. All faculty and students are invited to this free event on Thursday, Oct. 16, at 9 a.m. in the […]

The 2014-15 Wealth & Poverty Speaker Series presents Dr. Lakshman Yapa on “A New Social Theory of Poverty” on Friday, Sept. 12, at 3:30 p.m., followed by Q&A, in Baker Theater. Yapa is Professor of Geography at Pennsylvania State University. Watch on A&S TV. This event will be live-streamed and […]

Ohio University students have a new undergraduate certificate option starting this fall—Wealth and Poverty. The Wealth and Poverty Certificate (spring-2017) addresses economic growth, wealth distribution, poverty, inequality, and empowerment issues in both domestic and international settings. The 18-hour certificate provides a coherent and interdisciplinary combination and sequence of courses yo give students […]

The Wealth and Poverty Theme is sponsoring a public lecture with Mike Goldberg of the World Bank on Tuesday, March 18, at 1:30 p.m. in Baker Theater. Goldberg, Operations Adviser to the Regional Vice President oft the Africa Region at the World Bank, will discuss “Do institutional solutions for poverty […]

Dr. Maria Eugenia Bonilla-Chacin of the World Bank discusses “Lessons from Health Programs in Latin America” on Friday, March 21, at 3 p.m., in Bentley Hall 124. Bonilla-Chacin is a Senior Economist with the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition and Population Unit. In the last decades countries in Latin America have […]