Dr. JUDITH SHAPIRO

Resident Academic Coordinator, Professor
New Economic School
Nakhimovsky Prospekt, 47
Suite 1721, room 1721 (4)
117418 Moscow Russian Federation
Tel.: (7-495) 129-1700, 129-3236, ext: 133
Fax: (7-495) 129-3722
jshapiro@nes.ru

II. OTHER RELEVANT CURRENT WORK:

The Expert Group on Development Issues (EGDI), 1995- established by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden.

(From EGDI’s terms of reference: “a small group of internationally renowned experts…initiating and commissioning innovative research which will help to transform the development policy agenda.”)

Ford Foundation, Russia and member of its

Expert Group; Board of Directors, Moscow Public Science Foundation (Soros-MacArthur-Ford Foundation Funded).

Advisory Board of the Know How Fund (DFID) until winding-up of board as official body at end 1999.

European Forum Economic Programme Group, 1993- with John Eatwell (Cambridge), Michael Ellman (Amsterdam), Mats Karlsson (Stockholm), Mario Nuti (London/Rome), commissioned by the Brussels/Budapest based European Forum for Solidarity and Democracy..

III. PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE:

Co-authored Books:

(with John Eatwell, Michael Ellman, Mats Karlsson and Mario Nuti)

Hard Budgets, Soft States: Economics of Social Policy Choices in Central and Eastern Europe, Institute for Public Policy Research, London, March 2000.

Not `Just Another Accession': The Political Economy of EU Enlargement to the East, London, 1997.

Transformation and Integration: Shaping the Future of Central and Eastern Europe, IPPR, London, 1995.

(For the above three books, my contribution would be acknowledged to be more than half for the most recent book, less than the other authors for the second, and proportionate for the first).

I am, of course, not listing writing for the UNECE Economic Survey of Europe, for which I have no ownership. I am pleased to send examples of my work from this.. The entire transition economies section may be viewed on the website, www.unece.org

Articles and shorter works:

“ Contra: The statutory minimum wage: Dangers inherent in success”. CESifo Forum,

Quarterly Journal on European Issues launch issue, Spring 2000 ,

Less Poverty, Less Inflation: First Results for Russia, Royal Institute for International Affairs, London, 1996 (co-author Brigitte Granville, with assistance of Oksana Dynnikova).

Two articles largely based on the above published in Russia, details if desired.

Russian Inflation: A Statistical Pandora's Box Royal Institute for International Affairs, 1994. (co-author Brigitte Granville).

“Bleak winter,” The World Today, December, 1998.

“Huge variation in Russian mortality rates 1984-1994”, The Lancet, August 9, 1997 (co-author with David Leon et al, input on economic side and on alcohol consumption, particularly, as well as other insights on crime (unorganized, that is) in Russia.

“The Stress Hypothesis” in Proceedings of the IUSSP World Congress Beijing, 1997, Kluwer Press, for the International Union for the Scientific Study of Populations.

"Health and Health Policy" in New Developments in Russian Politics, Stephen White, editor, Macmillan, 1997.

"Russian Unemployment and the Excess Wages Tax" (with Ian Roxburgh) in Communist Economics and Economic Transformation, 1996, No 1.

(Originally a RECEP (TACIS) Working Paper (1995) and European Economic Association Conference Paper (September, 1994).)

Socio-Economic Survey, issued weekly by the Macroeconomic and Finance Unit, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Moscow (in Russian and English), then monthly, then quarterly, 1993-1995.

A large number of policy-related memoranda, newspaper articles and related items in Russian in this period of residence in Moscow.

"Secondary Currencies in the Russian Hyperinflation and Stabilisation of 1921-1924", LSE Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No 59, 1992. [co.author Jacek Rostowski]

"The Costs of Economic Reform" in C.Merridale and C.Ward, Perestroika: The Historical Perspective, Edward Arnold, 1991.

"Unemployment" in R.W. Davies, From Tsarism to NEP: Continuity and Change in the Economy of the USSR, Macmillan, 1990."

"The industrial labour force" in Mary Buckley (ed) Perestroika and Soviet Women, Cambridge University Press, 1992.

"The Health Care Market" Oxford University Centre for Soviet. Russian and East European Studies, Oxford Corporate Commissioned Report No 1, 1989.

Review article: "Towards the normalisation of Soviet history writing" Slavonic and East European Review, Summer 1990

"The perestroika of Soviet history" Slovo [London], Spring 1989

"USSR 1989" and "USSR 1990" Reuters (World of Information) on-line data base, updated quarterly until 1991.

"Im allem Ernst und für eine lange Zeit -- aber nicht für immer" in Theodore Bergmann and Gert Schäfer, Leo Trotzki: Kritiker und Vertidiger der Sowjetgesellschaft, Decaton Verlag, Mainz, 1993.

"Shatrov I debati navloko n'vogo" (in Ukrainian), Prapor, Kharkiv, No 11, 1990

"On the accuracy of economic observations of Chto Takoe SSSR in historical retrospect" in Comparative Economic Studies. Volume XXIX, No 3, Fall, 1987.

"Ashford, Kent" (with S. Balogh and V. Symes) in P. Cooke (ed) Global Restructuring and Local Response, ESRC, 1986. (Summary of ESRC project on this topic).

"Women in information technology engineering: aspects of the British experience" in Transactions of the IEEE , Autumn 1985.

"What is new in the economics of racial discrimination?" Racial and Ethnic Studies, January 1983.

This list is not quite exhaustive, and does not include, in particular, a number of conference paper published as proceedings, but it is relatively complete.

IV. PREVIOUS POSITIONS:

Senior Lecturer in Economics, 1990 – 1998
Department of Social Policy and Politics
University of London, Goldsmiths’ College

Lecturer, 1976-1990
Teaching experience (over 20 years) includes,

first and second year principles (micro and macro), economics of social policy, economics of public policy, comparative economic systems, Post-Communist Social Policy, economics of development, economics of transition for SSEES MA (academic year 1995-1996).

Co-supervised two PhDs in political economy areas, and played major informal role in supervision of recent (1999) PhD in economics for LSE European Institute (with Dr. N. Barr).

Administrative experience in department wide, across the period, including variously, admissions, examinations, director of studies, research.

External examiner for LSE BSc(Econ), 1995-1998.

Also During This Same Period (additionally, or on leave)

Russian European Centre for Economic Policy, Moscow (TACIS), Expert, Spring 1994 – 1998.

Resident economic advisor, Macroeconomic and Finance Unit (MFU) (“Sachs team”) Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, 1993 - 1994).

Visiting Researcher, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, March-September 1994, Autumn-Winter 1997.

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Washington, 1966-1970

Consultancy in private sector, California, until return to London in 1976.

V. RECENT FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS:

Partner in ACE-TACIS 1991 and 1995 projects "Social Costs of High Inflation" and "High Inflation, Inequality and Barriers to Growth"., both based at Royal Institute of International Affairs. (Total funding, 60,000 ECU and 99,500 ECU)

(DFID, then ODA) Know-How Fund Project on the Russian Economic Transformation and its impact on Russian Mortality, joint director of research with colleagues at LSHTM.

(Total project funding: £175,000), 1996/1997.

Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 1996-1997.

Co-ordinator, ACE-TACIS 1996 Collaborative Project: The Comparative Costs of Disinflation: Russia and Uzbekistan. Total funding: 80,000 ECU (discontinued on transfer to UN/ECE)

Swedish-Russian Project on Society, Stress. Alcohol and Economic Policy, total funding over period 1,200,000 SEK (£120,000), 1995-1997. Pilot funded by Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, then taken over by SIDA.

Jean Monnet Award, 1991 -1994, for academic project, setting up of course on "Economics of the European Community” (total award approximately 30,000 ECU)

Director of Project, Leverhulme Trust, Labour relations in the USSR during perestroika, 1989 -1992 .

VI. OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE INCLUDES:

National Secretary, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, 1990 – 1993.

Britain-Russia Social Security Advisory Group [Sir Peter Barclay, Chairman], 1992-1993.

National Advisory Board, Soviet Studies 1989 –93

Cambridge University Press NASEES/BASEES Series, Advisory Board, 1990-1995.

Consultancy to firms in Britain, on Soviet/Russian health care market, 1989 –1992.

Fulbright Professor, Kharkov, Ukraine, February - June, 1985.

VII. NATIONALITY, DATE, PLACE OF BIRTH: Naturalised British citizen, 29 Feburary 1996, permanent right of abode and work in Britain without permit or additional permsision, born New York City, 15.10.43.

VIII. LANGUAGES Russian (good command, certificate of UN oral and written proficiency awarded by examination), daily French, reading knowledge for economic purposes of several other central and east European languages

IX. RECENT CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PAPERS GIVEN INCLUDE:

Berlin, November 1999: “Ten Years After: macroeconomics and social policy”

University College, London, November 1999, Centre for Democracy and Society: The sharp fall in child-bearing across the transition economies: economic crisis or westernization?

Luxembourg, Luxembourg Income Study, July 1999: “Trends in Central and Eastern Europe”

London, April 1999, Royal Institute of International Affairs, European Pensions Conference.

Stockholm, July 1, Seminar for civil servants and NGOs on aid effectiveness and ineffectiveness: new approaches.

Have given more than 30 papers to British university seminars and national conferences, and more than 20 in Europe, the US and elsewhere. In lieu of a complete list, which I need to compile, I attach a report from 1993-1994 for the international conferences.

Forthcoming work, apart from the UN/ECE Economic Survey of Europe (on own time):

includes:

“Health and Transformation” paper and publication for ICEES International Congress, Tampere, Finland, July 2000,

“Was there an American precedent for the Russian mortality crisis?” submitted to journal.

“Natality and nuptiality in transition: economic crisis or modernization crisis? A comparative perspective,” for AAASS, Denver, November, 2000. Will focus on Baltic states, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Italy.

X. RESEARCH INTERESTS FOR NEAR FUTURE, deriving from previous work, and with plans for actively seeking funding:

1. Economics, health and demography in transition, with emphasis on innovative comparative analysis;

and, secondarily, relations between macroeconomic change, society and polity (with links in both directions), challenges of the new poverty and crime, urban change, again with an emphasis on comparative analysis.

Also engaged in supervising a Swedish-initiated project on questions of international labour standards, relevant to EU accession issues.

Primary area interests and in-depth knowledge are are, first of all, Russia, then Baltic states, Ukraine, Slovenia but have reasonable knowledge from recent post of all 27 countries with economies in transition in the “UN/ECE area” and also EU inter-relationships.

XI. EDUCATION

PhD, Economics, London (LSE), 1966, “Inter-industry wage determination”.

BA (Economics) University of Chicago, 1963 (no classes of degree awarded, but received National Science Foundation Fellowship to pursue work at LSE, 1963-1966).

XII. CONTACT DETAILS AND REFEREES

Telephone: +41 22 917 2720 (direct line)
Secretary: +41 22 917 27 53 (Victoria Goudeva)
Fax: +41 22 917 0309.
e-mail: judith.shapiro@unece.org

Referees:

Lord John Eatwell
President,
Queens’ College, Cambridge
Mats Karlsson
Vice-President for External Affairs
The World Bank
Dr. Nicholas Barr,
Department of Economics
London School of Economics

(as Dr. Barr is in Washington DC until 15 May, it may be preferable to send an inquiry by e-mail, if possible).

Dr. Barr also knows something of my teaching, but if an additional teaching reference were required, I could supply a number of alternate names.