Economics

Wealth and Poverty

Ken E. Salo, Professor for Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and Dr. Hadi Esfahini, Professor of Economics and the Director of the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Illinois talk about wealth and poverty in South Africa and the Middle East.

Faculty: 
Hadi Esfahani
Ken Salo
Cluster: 
Sustainable Development
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Iran and the Global Economy

Web Address: http://ensemble.atlas.uiuc.edu/app/sites/index.aspx?destinationID=SwHxTqrVAEawfNj3YWXz1g&contentID=5acUPbmGk0G-UyNj9oR6Fw
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Speaker(s): Hadi Esfahani, Bin Lin
Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Keywords: Middle East; 2011 Joint Area Centers Symposium; Economics; Trade
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Format: Flash
Running Time: 41 minutes
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How an Adequate Notion of Human Flourishing Challenges Economics

Web Address: http://www.religion.illinois.edu/news/thulin/archive/ThulinLecture2010.mov
Date: April 7, 2010
Speaker(s): Sabina Alkire
Organization: Director, Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford
Keywords: Economics; Poverty
Research Clusters: Global Studies as a Field of Study
Format: Quicktime
Series: Marjorie Hall Thulin Lecture on Religion And Contemporary Culture
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Alleviating Poverty Through Self-Employment

Web Address: http://flash.atlas.illinois.edu/video.html?src=/ips/ips-v-2010-3/ips-v-2010-3&player=SDNC
Date: March 17, 2010
Speaker(s): Dr. Muhammad Yunus
Organization: Microcredit Pioneer, Founder of Grameen Bank, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Keywords: Economics; Poverty
Research Clusters: Global Studies as a Field of Study
Format: Flash
Running Time: 40 minutes
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Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century

Web Address: http://flash.atlas.illinois.edu/video.html?player=SDNC&src=/las/las-v-2010-2/MuhammedYunus
Date: March 1, 2010
Speaker(s): Dr. Muhammad Yunus
Organization: Microcredit Pioneer, Founder of Grameen Bank, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Keywords: Economics; Poverty; United Nations
Research Clusters: Global Studies as a Field of Study
Format: Flash
Running Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Series: Prisms of Globalization Series
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Brazil - The Successes and Failures of Industrialization

Web Address: http://flash.atlas.illinois.edu/video.html?src=/cgs/cgs-v-2010-1/CGS-V-2010-1_Prisms_Baer&player=SDNC
Date: February 24, 2010
Speaker(s): Werner Baer
Organization: Department of Economics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Keywords: Latin America; Economics; Political Economy; Prisms of Globalization Lecture
Research Clusters: Global Studies as a Field of Study
Format: Real Media
Running Time: 1 hour
Series: Prisms of Globalization
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New Frontiers for Labor-Management Relations in a Global Knowledge Economy

Web Address: http://flash.atlas.illinois.edu/video.html?src=/cgs/cgs-v-2009-7/NewFrontiers&player=SDNC
Date: November 11, 2009
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Organization: Dean and Professor, School of Labor & Employment Relations
Keywords: Economics
Research Clusters: Global Studies as a Field of Study
Format: Flash
Running Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
Series: Prisms of Globalization
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The Impact of International Accounting Standards on Transparency in Financial Reporting

Web Address: http://flash.atlas.illinois.edu/video.html?src=/cgs/CGS-V-2009-8/CGS-V-2009-8&player=SDNC
Date: October 21, 2009
Speaker(s): A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
Organization: Professor of Accountancy and Director V.K. Zimmerman Center for International Education and Research of Accounting
Keywords: Economics; Finance & Banking
Research Clusters: Global Studies as a Field of Study
Format: Flash
Running Time: 57 minutes
Series: Prisms of Globalization Lecture Series
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The Global Economic Crisis

Web Address: http://flash.atlas.illinois.edu/SDNC.swf?src=/ips/ips-v-2009-2/Esfahani
Date: February 1, 2009
Speaker(s): Hadi Esfahani
Organization: Economics
Keywords: Economics
Research Clusters: Global Studies as a Field of Study
Format: Flash
Running Time: 29 minutes
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Land, Power, and Citizenship in West Africa

Web Address: http://flash.atlas.illinois.edu/SDNC.swf?src=/ips/ips-v-2009-3/Lentz
Date: March 1, 2009
Speaker(s): Carola Lentz
Organization: Johanes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany
Keywords: Africa; Citizenship; Economics
Research Clusters: Global Studies as a Field of Study
Format: Flash
Running Time: 31 minutes
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