Branko Milanović
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Branko Milanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранко Милановић, IPA: [brǎːŋko mǐlanoʋitɕ; milǎːn-])[2] is a Serbian-American economist. He is most known for his work on income distribution and inequality.
Branko Milanović | |
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Бранко Милановић | |
Born | (1953-10-24) October 24, 1953 (age 70) |
Nationality | Serbian / American |
Academic career | |
Institution | City University of New York Luxembourg Income Study |
Field | Economic inequality[1] Economic growth |
Alma mater | University of Belgrade |
Awards | Hans-Matthöfer-Preis für Wirtschaftspublizistik (2018); Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Knowledge (2018) |
Website | glineq |
Since January 2014, he has been a research professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and an affiliated senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS).[3][4] He also teaches at the London School of Economics[5] and the Barcelona Institute for International Studies.[6] In 2019, he has been appointed the honorary Maddison Chair at the University of Groningen.[7]
Milanović formerly was a lead economist in the World Bank's research department,[8] visiting professor at University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University.[9][10] Between 2003 and 2005 he was senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.[11] He remained an adjunct scholar with the Endowment until early 2010.[12] He did his Ph.D. at the University of Belgrade in 1987 on economic inequality in Yugoslavia, using for the first time micro data from Yugoslav household surveys. He published it as a book in 1990.[13]
He has been a visiting scholar at All Souls College in Oxford.[11]