Branko Milanovic

Branko Milanovic is a Lead Economist in a division concerned with poverty, income distribution and household surveys in World Bank's Research Department, and Adjunct Professor at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He obtained a Ph.D. in economics in 1987 from Belgrade University, Yugoslavia, defending his dissertation on income inequality in Yugoslavia. He writes on methodology and empirics of inequality; and on poverty and social policy in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. His most recent publications include Poverty and Social Assistance in Transition Countries, St. Martin's Press, 1999, co-authored with J. Braithwaite and Ch. Grootaert, "True world income distribution 1988 and 1993: first calculations based on household surveys alone", and Income, Inequality, and Poverty during the Transition from Planned to Market Economy, World Bank, 1998.