Events

Branko Milanovic

Global trends in income inequality

 On 23 June 2015, the Rafael del Pino Foundation organised the Keynote Lecture "Global trends in income inequality. Policy implications" given by Branko Milanovic, Presidential Fellow at the City University of New York and former Chief Economist of the World Bank. 

Branko Milanovic is a Presidential Fellow at the City University of New York. He was the Economic Director of the World Bank's research department from 1991 to 2013, a College Park Professor at the University of Maryland from 1997 to 2007 and a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington from 2003 to 2005. He is the author of a large number of articles on the methodology and empirics of global income distribution and the effects of globalisation. His most recent book is "The Haves and the Have-nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality", which was published in December 2010 and translated into 7 languages, and selected by The Globalist in 2011 as book of the year.

 

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