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Alaska World Affairs Council
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Upcoming Events
Friday, October 26, 2012
"U.S. Energy and Tax Policies: Implications for Alaska's Economy"
Margo Thorning is the senior vice president and chief economist with the American Council for Capital Formaton and the director of research for its public policy think tank.
John Hatch
"The End of Poverty by 2040"
John Hatch founded FINCA International Inc. in 1984 and served as its Director of Research. In 1976, Mr. Hatch formed an independent consulting firm, Rural Development Services (RDS). Until his retirement in 2006, he served as the foundation's president, and as chief of party for Village Banking programs in Guatemala and El Salvador. He previously served in Colombia as a community development volunteer for the Peace Corps, and then became a Peace Corps regional director in Peru.
Mr. Hatch serves as a Director of FINCA International Inc. Mr. Hatch serves as a Member of the microfinance Advisory Board of Kiva Microfunds. Mr. Hatch directs FINCA's global mission support department, which features action research by summer interns armed with Palm Pilots who interview some 3,000 clients per year to document their poverty levels, business profitability, and rising living standards.
Mr. Hatch is also known as the father of "village banking", a group loan methodology now replicated by over 800 micro-credit programs in 60 countries. Mr. Hatch economic development career spans 44 years, during which time he was a Peace Corps volunteer and staff member (1962-67) Fulbright scholar, (PhD, Univ. Wisconsin, 1973), economist, and a consultant to small farmer development projects in some 50 countries (1973-83). Mr. Hatch is a co-founder and executive committee member of the Microcredit Summit global campaign to reach 100 million of the world's poorest mothers with self-employment loans by the year 2006. He has given microcredit workshops at universities at home and abroad, while also teaching microcredit at George Washington University and Mr. Hatch Hopkins SAIS. He won a Fulbright grant to conduct research on his doctoral thesis in Peru, where he spent two crop cycles (18 months) as a hired laborer working for 30 subsistence farmers and documenting their traditional agricultural practices. He is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin.
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Wednesday, September 19th. DOOR PRICES: Lunch is $26 for Members or $30 for Non-Members, Coffee & Dessert is $15, Students and UAA staff receive lunch for free.
