Branko Milanovic

Branko Milanovic - University of Maryland (USA)

Branko Milanovic received his PhD in economics in 1987 from Belgrade University. He is a lead economist in the World Bank's research department, and was a senior associate, later an adjunct scholar, with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Global Policy Program. Dr. Milanovic is a visiting professor teaching the Economics of Transition at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, and visiting professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He is an expert in international economics, economic/market reform, economies in transition, income distribution, and international financial institutions. His publications have appeared in leading journals such as: the Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Studies, The World Bank Economic Review, among others. Dr. Milanovic’s recent publications include: Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality, which was recently published in Spanish, and Income and Influence: Social Policy in Emerging Economies, with Ethan Kapstein.

RESEARCH STAY AT UC3M: ECONOMIC HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS DEPARTMENT

PROJECT: The objective of the project "Toward an empirical history of global income distribution" is to use the results of empirical historical research regarding average income levels in preindustrial and early modern societies and combine it with distributional data (mostly social tables) in order to generate global (worldwide) income distribution at different salient points in the past. This should provide a first estimate of how global income distribution -an outcome of two forces: differential growth rates of different economies and charges in income distributions within nations- has evolved in the course of history.

Stay Period: MAR 11 - DEC 11

Conferences

Professor: Branko Milanovic
Title: Global income inequality: the story of the past two centuries
Date: 16 november 12:00h
Place: Aula Multimedia 15.1.01 - Getafe

Professor: Branko Milanovic
Title: Level of Income and Income Distribution in Mid-18th Century France, According To François Quesnayo centuries
Date: 1 june 12:00h
Place: Aula Multimedia 15.1.01 - Getafe

Publications

• "Evolution of global inequality: from class to location, from proletarians to migrants”,  Global Policy,vol. 3, No. 2, May 2012, pp. 124-133.  (Pl. see the acknowledgement on p. 132). It was also published as World Bank Working Paper No. 5820, September 2011.

• "Level od income and income distribution in mid-18th century France according to Francois Quesnay" and  the acknowledgement to Carlos III is on page 1.)