Branko milanovic biography definition

He is a Serbian citizen. Lead economist in the World Bank's research department, a development specialist, he is a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University. He remained an adjunct scholar with the Endowment until early Throughout his career he has done a number of publications, including some 40 papers for the World Bank. He is the author of the first work assessing global income inequality between individuals.

His book about global income disparity; introduced three concepts of international inequality: unweighted inequality between mean country incomes, population-weighted inequality between mean country incomes, and global income inequality between all individuals in the world. He defined inequality possibility frontier in a paper on inequality in Byzantium.

The concept, later expanded to 29 pre-industrial economies in a joint work with Jeffrey Williamson and Peter Lindert, was considered by The Economist to "contain the germ of an important advance in thinking about inequality". Milanovic is the author of 's The Haves and the Have-Nots, a book of essays on income distribution; The Globalist selected The Haves and the Have-Nots as number one on its "top books of ".

Writing for the Roubini Global Economics, Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort characterized him as " one of the leading experts in income inequality". We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe. If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.

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Branko Milanovic is a senior scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality.

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