Branko Milanovic

World Bank
Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Policy

Lead economist in World Bank Research Department in the unit dealing with poverty and income inequality; adjunct scholar with Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington; and College Park Professor, University of Maryland. Ph. D. in economics and statistics (income distribution) from University of Belgrade, 1987.
Milanovic is the author of numerous articles on methodology and empirics of global income distribution, effects of globalization, and poverty and social policy in transition economies. His publications include Income and Influence: Social Policy in Emerging Market Economies (co-authored with Ethan Kapstein), Upjohn 2003 andIncome, Inequality, and Poverty during the Transition from Planned to Market Economy, World Bank, 1998. His recent book on global income inequality, Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality, Princeton University Press came out in 2005. It has been translated into six languages. His new book The Haves and the Have-nots: A Short and Idiosyncratic History of Inequality, Basic Books is coming out December 2010.

Working Group

Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy (MIP)

Additional Information

Email: branko_mi@yahoo.com
Homepage: http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/directory/milanovic#bio