04/06/2009 Ruslan G. Yemtsov Tel: (202) Date of Birth: 9 August 1965 Nationality: Russian

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1 04/06/2009 Ruslan G. Yemtsov Tel: (202) Date of Birth: 9 August 1965 Nationality: Russian Languages: Russian (Native), English (Fluent), French (Fluent), German (Minimal). Current Position (since April 2, 2008): Lead Economist, Social and Economic Development Group, Middle East and North Africa Region. Previous Position: Senior Economist, Social and Economic Development Group, Middle East and North Africa Region. Senior Economist, Regional Poverty Coordinator, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit, Europe and Central Asia Region. Education: Ph.D. Moscow State University, 1991, Economics M.A. Moscow State University, 1987, Political Economy B. A. Moscow State University, 1985, Political Economy Work Experience: World Bank MNSED, Senior Economist-Lead Economist / MENA Poverty Coordinator World Bank ECA, ECSPE, Economist -Senior Economist/ ECA Poverty Coordinator World Bank Young Professional (Assignment: South Asia, SA2CI) World Bank EDI, Moscow Office, Program Officer and Local Consultant Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University, Professor. Summary of assignments and main achievements: o Task Teams Leader (TTL) for Regional study on subsidies reform in Middle East and North Africa (forthcoming), Poverty dynamics report in Egypt (2009), Poverty work in Morocco; o Task Teams Leader (TTL) for the Western Balkans Programmatic Poverty Assessment: three-year program co financed by DFID TF for 6 countries in the region; o Task manager of a Joint Program (with DFID and the Russian Government) Enhancing Poverty Measurement, Monitoring, and Analysis of Poverty in Russia with strong sub-national component, TTL for TA (Impact assessment of structural reform in Russia); negotiated fee-for-service/co-finance arrangements with the clients; o TTL for major reports: ECA Regional Report on Growth, Inequality and Poverty ; Poverty Assessments for: Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia, Georgia and Croatia; o Author of research proposals/ manager of studies on poverty and gender, impact assessment, environment and poverty; o Contributing author to reports on poverty, inequality, labor markets, rural credit, gender and poverty, financing of education, impact evaluation of infrastructure projects; o Member of operational task teams for Serbia (SAC II, 2004), Croatia (SAL, 2001), Georgia (Energy SESAC, 1999 and Structural Reform Support, 2000), Russia (SPIL, 1996); PRSP support activities in the South Caucasus, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia and Bosnia, and CAS/CPS team member for Russia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Georgia. o Author or co-author of research papers published in: Review of Development Economics; Journal of Human Development; World Bank Economic Review; Economics of Transition; World Bank Technical Papers Series, Policy Research Papers, EDI Development Series; UN WIDER (World 1

2 o Institute of Development Economic Research) Discussion Papers; IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor) Discussion Papers. Manager and instructor at various training programs by EDI, WBI, IMF for Government officials from the CIS, Balkans, China. Skills profile/ research interests: Labor Economics, poverty and inequality, integrative skills, evaluation. Country Experience: Russia (including sub-national experience), Turkey, India, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Armenia, FYR Macedonia, Egypt, Morocco, Djibouti, Slovakia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Poland, Kyrgyz Republic, China. Details of Assignments: MNSED Lead Economist (Since April 2008): Egypt: Poverty Notes team leader, co-author of two research papers on panel dynamics; Egypt: Shared Growth Study team leader; Morocco programmatic poverty work and nutritional mapping team member; Morocco Public administration policy reform loan- author of the PSIA; Djibouti- Food crisis facility team member (2008); Middle East and North Africa Research project on Inequality in the Middle East (with Economic Research Forum (Cairo) team member; Peer reviewer of poverty reports in the region. MNSED Senior Economist (Since April 2007): Egypt: Poverty Assessment Update team member; Egypt: Shared Growth Study coauthor of TF proposal, TTL; Morocco- Policy Note on poverty, work on impact assessment of INDH and programmatic poverty work team member; Peer reviewer of poverty reports. ECSPE Senior Economist ( ): Western Balkans: Programmatic Poverty Assessment Task manager , author of poverty notes, TTL -capacity building programs and data collection initiatives; Russian Federation: Programmatic Poverty Assessment Task manager , coordinator of 5-regions study of targeting leading to preparation of sub-national reports on poverty and social assistance, organization and management of innovative survey in Tomsk region, capacity building for the Central Statistical offices, and work with local stakeholders; Russian Federation: Modeling and Impact Analysis of Structural Reforms (TA) task manager, methodological guidance to the local team composed of representatives form leading Russian think tanks; Growth, Poverty and Inequality in ECA (Second Regional Report on Growth and Poverty Reduction in ECA) (task team co-manager, one of the key authors, responsible for data analysis), Flagship study published and disseminated in 2005; ECA Household Survey Archive setting up and managing the archive (comprehensive collection of all datasets from the representative household surveys for 26 ECA countries, covering ), methodology of comparable consumption aggregates and 2

3 poverty/inequality figures , help to various Bank teams using the data (including DECRG, WDR, ECSHD, ECSIE); Serbia and Montenegro: Poverty Assessment Program (team leader, contributor) [First Poverty Assessment Report Delivered November 13, 2003 (Report No YU)], also included direct inputs to national PRSPs through building a consensus regarding poverty diagnostics; Serbia: Structural Adjustment Credit II (team member, leading the work on the background paper on PSIA of energy tariff reform ); Bosnia: Poverty Assessment Program (team leader, contributor) ; First Report Delivered November 21, 2003 (Report No BIH); Macedonia: Poverty Assessment Program (TTL, then team member) , author of background paper on Poverty-Growth Linkages; Macedonia: PRSP (team member) , capacity building for the Statistical office, assisting the preparation of National PRSP Report; Russia: Poverty Assessment, team member ( ), co-author of the Concept paper, author of the Chapter on regional dimensions of poverty, coordinator of technical assistance to the Statistical office, extensive dissemination program; Turkey: Joint Poverty Assessment (team member) , Background paper on poverty dynamics between 1987, 1996 and 2002, capacity building at the Statistical Office; Georgia: The Impact of social infrastructure rehabilitation on household welfare (team leader, co-author of the study) Georgia: Poverty Update (team leader, key author) , Delivered January 10, Report No GE; Croatia: Social Welfare Development Project (led by HD) operationalization if Poverty Assessment findings preparation of concept paper, mobilizing TF to support the work, Croatia: Economic Vulnerability and Social Welfare Study (team leader) ; Delivered April 18, Report No HR, strong capacity building component coorganized with local academia; o ECSPE, Economist ( ): Turkey, Economic Reform and Living Standards Study team member, background papers on labor markets and poverty, author of the poverty profile, expensive training and capacity building, dissemination ( ); Slovakia: Living Standards, Employment and Labor Market Study - co-author of a poverty profile chapter (2001); Armenia: Growth Study chapter on economic growth, labor market, unemployment (2002); Georgia: Energy SESAC (managed by Infrastructure) team member responsible for the analysis of poverty impact of changing energy tariffs, development of social transfer mechanism to mitigate the impact on the poor (1999); Poverty Assessment for Georgia -co-task managing and author of background papers on poverty, income distribution, poverty projections and labor market ( ); Armenia, Restructuring of Education Study -co-task manager and co-author ( ); Managing transition work for everyone: cross country report on poverty and inequality in ECA countries (First Regional Report on Poverty and Inequality in ECA2000) one of the key team members, co-author of poverty profile and inequality chapters ( ); Ukraine: Social Safety Net and Poverty- training to local consultants in poverty analysis and joint analysis of poverty profile,

4 o Contributing author to the EBRD Transition Report 2000: July-August, o ECSPE: Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, Croatia, Russia, Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia: training provided to the staff of local statistical offices in poverty and welfare analysis, o Second Young Professionals Program assignment to ECSPE (IBRD): Poverty and Social Assistance Study for Armenia (background papers on poverty and labor market in Armenia), o First Young Professionals Program assignment to SA2CI (IBRD): Poverty Assessment for India (review of anti-poverty programs, note on child labor) and India: Rural Credit Reform (Author of background notes on economic effect of rural credit), o Social Sector Adjustment Loan (SSECAL) World Bank Missions to Russia (May and June, 1996). o Economic Development Institute of the World Bank Moscow Office, Macroeconomic Unit, National Program Officer, responsible for programs design and teaching Economics for EDIMP courses in CIS countries May August, 1996 (designing modules in Microeconomic and applied economic analysis for Trainers and for Government officials in courses and training programs set up by EDI in Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, and China). o Secondment with the IMF at the Joint Vienna Institute as a Course Advisor at the Comprehensive Course on Applied Market Economics for Government officials from Transition economies (Central and Eastern Europe, CIS, Mongolia, Vietnam, China), August - December, o Consultant, EDI Febr March 1993, teaching micro and macro economics, labor market dynamics in Russia (research). o Assistant Professor, Full Professor: Moscow State University, December May 1993, teaching field: Micro- and Macroeconomics; Visiting Professor at International University in Moscow, Teaching field: Microeconomics Publications: 1. Sole author of Housing Privatization and Household Wealth in Transition Paper published as a Chapter in UN WIDER book "Personal Assets from a Global Perspective" (Oxford University Press, 2008); published also as WIDER Discussion Paper 2. Quo Vadis: Regional Inequality and Poverty in Russia, Paper presented at the Cornell University-London School of Economics WIDER Conference on Regional Inequality and Development, London, June 2002 WIDER Discussion Paper DP2003/67, published as Chapter 14 in Spatial Inequality and Development (edited by Ravi Kanbur and Anthony J. Venables) Oxford University Press (2005). 3. Living Standards and Economic Vulnerability in Turkey between 1987 and IZA Discussion Paper Inequality and Income Distribution in Georgia. Labor Markets, Inequality and Poverty in Georgia. IZA Discussion Paper Labor Markets, Inequality and Poverty in Georgia. IZA Discussion Paper Ingoing and Outgoing Flows in Employment//IIASA Seminar on Restructuring and Recovering of Output in Russia, Laxembourg, June, Co-author of published research papers: 7. Increasing Inequality in Transition Economies: Is There More to Come? (with Pradeep Mitra) Paper presented at the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2007, January 2007, forthcoming in the Conference Volume and published in the World Bank Economic Review, Who Bears the Cost of Russia s Military Draft (with M. Lokshin) World Bank Policy Research Paper, WPS 3547, 2005 and Economics of Transition. 9. Bosnia and Herzegovina : Enterprise Restructuring, Labor Market Transitions and Poverty 4

5 (with Erwin Tiongson) paper accepted for IZA-World Bank Conference on Employment and Development, June 2007, Bonn and published in World Bank Policy Research Working Papers, 4479, January Evaluating the Impact of Infrastructure Rehabilitation Projects on Household Welfare in Rural Georgia (with M. Lokshin) World Bank Policy Research Paper, WPS 3155, 2003; the revised version is published in the World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 19, 2005 No 2 as Has The Rural Infrastructure Rehabilitation In Georgia Helped The Poor? 11. Labor Market States, Mobility and Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies (with Mark Dutz, Celine Kauffmann, Serineh Najarian, and Peter Sanfey)// EBRD Working Paper 66, Household Coping Strategies and Social Exclusion in Post-Crisis Russia. (with M. Lokshin) Review of Development Economics Vol. 8 Issue 1 February 2004, and published as World Bank Policy Research Paper, Armenia: Restructuring to Sustain Universal General Education (with G. Perkins), World Bank Technical Paper, No. 498, The Distribution of Earnings in Transition: Is Russia Really so Different? (with J. Wadsworth and H. Lehmann)// Paper presented at the Conference on Labor Market Adjustment and Restructuring in Transition Economies, Sinaia, Romania, April, mimeo. 15. Channels of Redistribution: Inequality and Poverty in the Russian Transition (with S. Commander and A. Tolstopiatenko)// Economics of Transition, vol. 7, no.2, How Russian Firms Make Their Wage and Employment Decisions (with S. Commander and S.Dhar)// in Enterprise Restructuring and Economic Policy in Russia (ed. by S. Commander, Q. Fan and M. Schaffer), EDI Development Series, World Bank, Characteristics of Russian Unemployment (with S. Commander)// in Poverty in Russia. Public Policy and Private Responses (ed.by J. Klugman) EDI Development Series, World Bank, Russian Unemployment: its Magnitude, Characteristics and Regional Dimensions (with S. Commander)// in Poverty in Russia. Public Policy and Private Responses (ed.by J. Klugman) EDI Development Series, World Bank, 1997; 19. Russia (with S. Commander and J. McHale)// in S. Commander and F. Coricelli, eds Unemployment, restructuring and the Labor Market in East Europe and Russia, EDI Development Studies, 1995); 20. The Behavior of Russian Firms in 1992: Evidence from a Survey (with S. Commander et al.); Unemployment and Labor Market Dynamics in Russia ( with S. Commander et al.); Wage and Employment Decision in the Russian Economy / 1992: Policy Research Working Papers. 21. Background paper Investment in Training in Transition to the Market (with I. Albegova, R. Kapeliushnikov, P. Knight and T. Leonova), prepared for World Bank Russian Training Foundation Project / Contributing author for mimeos Prices, Wages and Employment in Russia (with S. Commander), 1992; 23. Contributing author for mimeo Privatization in Russia: Does it Matter? Some Early Evidence on the Behavior of Privatized and Private Firms (with S.Commander), Author or Co-author of research papers submitted to the journals/ presented at the conferences: 24. Sole author: Through the Looking-Glass: What is behind official data on inequality in Russia over ? Paper Presented at the 30th General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, Evolution of the Predictors of Earnings During Transition (with Cem Mete and Stefania Rodica Conbloch) Paper presented at the World Bank Economist forum

6 Sole author or co-author of background papers for World Bank reports: o Economic Growth, Inequality and Poverty: Social Mobility in Egypt between 2005 and 2008 (with Heba El-Laithy, Hala Abou-Ali, Sherine Al-Shawarby, and Daniela Marotta), 2009; o Growth Poverty and Inequality in ECA: Evolution of Returns to Education in transition countries, 2005 (forthcoming, with Cem Mete and Stefania Rodica Cnobloch); o Serbia Poverty Assessment: Dynamics of poverty and economic growth , 2006; o Bosnia Poverty Assessment: Poverty Profile and Characteristics of the Poor in Bosnia and Herzegovina: 2002; o Armenia Growth Study: Labor Market, Unemployment and Growth: 2002; o Turkey: Living Standards and Economic Reform Study: Living Standards and Economic Vulnerability in Turkey between 1987 and 1994 also published as IZA working paper; o Georgia: Poverty Assessment: The Profile of Poverty in Georgia, also published as IZA working paper; o Georgia: Poverty Assessment: Labor Markets, Inequality and Poverty in Georgian Transition to the Market also published as IZA working paper; o Georgia: Poverty Assessment: Inequality and Income Distribution in Georgia; o Georgia: Poverty Assessment: What Will Poverty in Georgia Look Like in 2007?; o Poverty and Social Assistance Study for Armenia: Measuring Poverty in Armenia, 1997; o Poverty and Social Assistance Study for Armenia: Armenian Labor Market: Adjustments and Misalignments, 1997; o India: Rural Credit PAD: System for Monitoring and Evaluating Development Impact of Rural Credit in India, 1996; o India: Rural Credit PAD: Determinants of Rural Credit Deployment and Deposit Mobilization in India: District - Level Data Analysis, 1997; o India: Poverty Assessment: Child Labor Background note (India), Co-author of the textbook Microeconomics (with M. Lukin), in Russian, Moscow, Infra M, 1996, and of numerous articles, chapters in textbooks and monographs, published in Russian on labor markets, poverty, social policy and antitrust policy in transition, including: co-editor and contributing author to a monograph State Economic Policy (with I.Albegova and A.Kholopov) in Russian, Moscow, Delo i Servis, 1998; editor of translation into Russian Sensitivity of poverty and inequality statistics to alternative definitions of household welfare. Illustration using the NOBUS survey (E.Tesliuc and L.Ovcharova), Moscow, 2007; co-editor of G. Mankiw Macroeconomics translation into Russian, Moscow, MSU Press, 1994; editor and contributing author to Unemployment, restructuring and the Labor Market in East Europe and Russia (S. Commander and F. Coricelli, eds) translation into Russian, Moscow, InfraPress, 1995; co-editor of translation into Russian Best Practices in Trade Policy Reform (V.Tomas and J. Nash, eds.), Moscow, InfraPress, Research Projects and fellowships: IZA (Institute for the Studies of labor, Bonn) research fellow since Middle East and North Africa Joint research project on Inequality in the Middle East (World Bank with Economic Research Forum (Cairo) on-going. Shared growth facility Poverty and access to services in Upper Rural Egypt (World Bank, PRMPR), 6

7 2007. ECA Household survey archive, World Bank LSMS Surveys in Serbia and social assistance reform, co-financed by the Dutch TF and DFID ( and ). Poverty and environment household survey in Montenegro, 2004 and a study linking poverty energy tariff reform and environment (World Bank and Norwegian TF), Regional inequality and poverty in Russia (World Bank, DFID and WIDER), Mainstreaming gender into the poverty assessment work Bosnia and Herzegovina study integrating qualitative and quantitative data for lifecycle conceptualization of gender and poverty (World Bank, Netherlands, University of North Carolina) Impact evaluation for rural infrastructure projects in Georgia (World Bank, PRMPO grant), EBRD Transition Report 2000 (Labor Markets). Ifo Institute project on regional labor markets in the Russian Federation World Bank Poverty Assessment for Russia - Survey of Unemployment and Partial Employment in Russia conducted in cooperation with VCIOM World Bank Research Project The Labor Market in Transitional Socialist Economies , survey of Russian firms on wages/benefits and contributing author to a series of papers on the Russian labor market. Conferences and Workshops (presenter of papers/session organizer): 30th General Conference of The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth Portoroz, Slovenia, August 24 30, 2008 DEC Economist Forum: paper on Returns to education in transition in the section Labor Market and Demographic Transition April, 2007, Washington DC. DFID and the Government of Leningrad Oblast SPRILO (Program of assistance to Leningrad Oblast in poverty reduction) Final Conference Poverty Reduction in Russian Regions, St. Petersburg, February 13-14, ECA PREM-DEC-PRMPR-WBI Training of Trainers in Poverty Analysis for the Western Balkans, January 15-19, 2007, Washington DC. UN WIDER Conference Personal Assets Distribution form a Global Perspective May 4-6, Higher School of Economics Annual conference on Institutions in Transition, Moscow, April EBRD Workshop on the Informal economy in the Transition countries, London, February, 25, World Bank-UNDP-IMF Third PRSP Forum for the Balkans in Labor Markets, Thessaloniki, May 27-28, World Bank-UNDP-IMF Second PRSP Forum for the Balkans, Thessaloniki, March 29-31, SIDA Meeting on PRSP in Western Balkans Stockholm, September, Joint Vienna Institute Conference Ten Years of Transition: New Agenda for New Demands Vienna, August, DEC Economist Forum: paper on Russian regional inequality presented in the section Macro Micro Linkages for Poverty Analysis April, 2003, Washington DC. World Bank-Central Statistical Office of Poland: Workshop in Housing Rents Imputations and Welfare Aggregates. March, 2003, Warsaw, Poland World Bank-UNDP-IMF First Poverty Forum for Balkans, November 2002, Baden, Austria UN WIDER workshop on Microsimulations of Tax Benefits Reforms in the Russian Federation, Helsinki, Finland August 2002 Cornell University-London School of Economics WIDER Conference on Regional Inequality and Development, London, June World Bank-UNDP-IMF Poverty Forum for CIS, November 2001, Budapest, Hungary. 7

8 World Bank-Goskomstat of Russian Federation: Reforming the Household Budget Survey and Poverty Monitoring. May, 2001, Moscow, Russia. LICOS- World Bank Conference Labor Market Adjustment and Restructuring in Transition Economies, Sinaia, Romania, April, World Bank - UNDP Conference Social Protection in Armenia, Yerevan, March, World Bank Workshop on Understanding Transition in Central Asia, Washington, June, EBRD Conference Inequality and Poverty in Transition Economies, London, May World Bank Workshop on Labor Market in Transitional Socialist Economies, Budapest, March World Bank - Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation Conference on Economic Policy and Enterprise Restructuring in Russia, St.Petersburg, June OECD Technical Workshop What can we learn from the experience of transition countries with labor market policies?, Vienna, Institute for advanced studies, November Ifo Workshop on Regional labor market studies in Russian Federation - Munich, September OECD Technical Workshop on Regional Unemployment in Central and Eastern Europe, Vienna, November IIASA Seminar on Restructuring and Recovering of Output in Russia, Vienna, June World Bank Workshop on Labor Market in Transitional Socialist Economies, Prague, April World Bank Conference on Unemployment, Restructuring and Labor Market in East Europe and Russia, Prague, October World Bank Workshop on Labor Market in Transitional Socialist Economies, Prague, July