Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen

Editorial and Publishing Associate

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Phone +358-(0)9-615 99236

Email lorraine@wider.unu.edu

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    Blog
    7555 km and beyond: Working together to achieve the SDGs

    'It was great to have enough time to discuss each paper. I received useful and frank feedback. The topics are relevant for everyone. I noticed a...

    Blog
    Science and Survival: Is an Agriculture-led Developmental Model the Way Forward for sub-Saharan Africa?

    9 May 2013 Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen and Roger Williamson Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century, (edited by Adam Szirmai, Wim...

    Panel discussion
    Development success: Strategies and lessons from more advanced countries and the developing world

    Video: panel discussion which took place on Monday 18 March 2013 in Oxford: http://fsmevents.com/csae/session6/ What lessons can be learnt from developed countries that might be useful for developing and emerging economies? With an emphasis on long...

    18 March 2013
    Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
    Past event
    Panel discussion
    Latin American urban development into the 21st century: Towards a renewed perspective on the city

    The 20th century witnessed global processes of urbanization on an unprecedented scale, to the extent that more than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas for the first time in human history. Latin America is the developing world's...

    26 October 2012
    Senate Room, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow, United Kingdom
    Past event
    Presentation
    Group visit by the students of Hokkaido University

    Group visit by students of Hokkaido University, Japan, for briefing on UNU-WIDER's mandate and research, particularly ongoing research work within the project on Foreign Aid, Recom: Research and Communications

    30 August 2012
    UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland
    Past event
    Blog
    Measuring Poverty Over Time

    Luc Christiaensen and Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen If a person suddenly becomes poor, for example, due to an unexpected death or illness in the family...

    Panel discussion
    Economies in transition: The long-run view

    Chair: Erik Berglof, Chief Economist, EBRD Speakers: Professor Gérard Roland, University of California, Berkeley. Dr Rania Al-Mashat, Assistant Sub-Governor and Head of Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of Egypt. Professor Roland, editor of...

    19 June 2012
    European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, One Exchange Square, London, United Kingdom
    Past event
    Presentation
    Urbanization and development in Asia: Multidimensional perspectives

    Presenter: Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, UNDP Nepal, formerly UNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow. Over the last few decades, globalization has had a visible effect on urbanization and migration patterns across much of Asia. Analyses of migration patterns...

    16 June 2012
    Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
    Past event
    Blog
    After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Some Lessons on Transition
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    Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London was the setting on 19 June 2012 for the launch of the...

    Blog
    Urbanization and Development in Asia: Linkages with Globalization and Migration
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    Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen The Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, was the venue for the launch on 16 June 2012 of the just...

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    Group visit by the Helsinki Students' UN Association (HYKY ry)

    Group visit by the Helsinki Students’ UN Association for a seminar on UNU-WIDER’s mandate and research programme, with a research presentation on the UNU-WIDER project ‘Development Under Climate Change’ given by James Thurlow, Research Fellow at UNU...

    3 May 2012
    UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland
    Past event
    Seminar
    Fragile states: Causes, costs, and responses

    Overcoming state fragility is one of the most important international development objectives of the 21st century. Many fragile states have turned into failed states, where millions of people are caught in deprivation and seemingly hopeless conditions...

    19 March 2012
    St Catherine's College, Manor Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
    Past event
    Seminar
    Fragile states: Causes, costs, and responses

    Presenter Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, UNCTAD Chair Gordon Alexander, UNICEF Office of Research Discussant Gerárd Roland, University of California Overcoming state fragility is one of the most important international development objectives of the 21st...

    14 March 2012
    Istituto degli Innocenti , Piazza della Santissima, Florence, Italy
    Past event
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    Group visit by American Women’s Club

    ‘Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress, Setbacks, and New Directions’ by Danielle Resnick. In the past twenty years, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have experienced significant strides towards becoming more democratic as a result of...

    29 February 2012
    UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland
    Past event
    Blog
    UNU-WIDER Remembers President Václav Havel, 1936-2011
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    20 December 2011 The world watched in astonishment at the display of an extraordinary uprising of people, and within weeks saw Václav Havel installed...

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    Urbanization and Development: The Big Questions
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    Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen In October the London School of Economics and Political Science hosted the launch of Urbanization and Development...

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