Branko Milanović is a Lead economist in the World Bank

World Bank

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's research department in the unit dealing with poverty and inequality and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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, in Washington, D.C.

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Education

Milanović received a MSc

MSC

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 from Florida State University

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 and a Ph.D.

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 in economics

Economics

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 from the University of Belgrade

University of Belgrade

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 Faculty of Economics

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 in 1987.

Research and career

Milanović focuses on the issues of globalization, income distribution, and democracy. Previously, he worked as World Bank country economist for Poland

Poland

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 from 1988 to 1991 and research fellow at the Institute of Economic Sciences in Belgrade

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, Yugoslavia

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 from 1980 to 1983 and from 1986 to 1988. Between 1996 and 2007, he has served as an adjunct professor of Economics of at the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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. Since 2007, he is an adjunct professor at the School for Public Policy, University of Maryland at College Park.

He is an expert in income distribution (inequalities within nations and globally), economies in transition, globalization

Globalization

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 and development

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Milanović has published several papers and books, mainly on world inequality

International inequality

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 and poverty

Poverty

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. He is the author of the first work assessing global income inequality between individuals (Economic Journal, 2002). His 2005 book ("Worlds Apart") introduced three concepts of international or global inequality: unweighted inequality between mean country incomes, population-weighted inequality between mean country incomes, and global income inequality between all individuals in the world. His concept of inequality possibility frontier, defined in a 2006 paper on inequality in Byzantium ("Review of Income and Wealth") and later expanded in joint work with Jeffrey Williamson and Peter Lindert is particularly useful in studies of inequality in pre-industrial societies.

Selected books

• Liberalization and Entrepreneurship. Dynamics of Reform in Socialism and Capitalism, 1989. M.E. Sharpe.
• Income, Inequality, and Poverty during the Transition from Planned to Market Economy. 1998. World Bank.
• (with Ethan Kapstein) Income and Influence. 2003. W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
• (with Christiaan Grootaert and Jeanine Braithwaite) Poverty and Social Assistance in Transition Countries. 1999. St. Martin's Press.
• Worlds Apart. Measuring International and Global Inequality. 2005. Princeton/Oxford.
• The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Short and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality. 2011. Basic Books.