Post Tagged with: "Wealth and Poverty"

Library Adds Wealth & Poverty Subject Guide

Library Adds Wealth & Poverty Subject Guide

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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October 23, 2014 at 2:41 pmNews

Volunteer Abroad: Go to India, Honduras, or Ghana with ‘Unite For Sight’

Volunteer Abroad: Go to India, Honduras, or Ghana with ‘Unite For Sight’

\Volunteer in India, Honduras, or Ghana with Unite For Sight Global Health Volunteer Abroad Opportunity Join Unite For Sight’s Global Impact Corps for a hands-on, immersive and unique global health experience. Unite For Sight prides itself on offering the best global health experience for volunteers, coupled with the highest quality healthcare […]

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October 20, 2014 at 4:26 pmAnnouncements

Wealth & Poverty Screens ‘Inequalty for All,’ Oct. 16

Wealth & Poverty Screens ‘Inequalty for All,’ Oct. 16

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 […]

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October 16, 2014 at 7:15 pmEvents

Wealth & Poverty: ‘A New Social Theory of Poverty,’ Sept. 12

Wealth & Poverty: ‘A New Social Theory of Poverty,’ Sept. 12

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 […]

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September 12, 2014 at 8:15 pmEvents

New Wealth & Poverty Certificate Tackles Inequality and Empowerment

New Wealth & Poverty Certificate Tackles Inequality and Empowerment

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 […]

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August 16, 2014 at 11:41 amNews

Wealth & Poverty: Speaker from World Bank Africa Region, March 18

Wealth & Poverty: Speaker from World Bank Africa Region, March 18

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 […]

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February 27, 2014 at 2:00 pmEvents

World Bank: Lessons from Latin American Health Programs, March 21

World Bank: Lessons from Latin American Health Programs, March 21

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 […]

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February 21, 2014 at 1:00 pmEvents