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Born October 24, Education: Florida State University, M. World Bank , country economist for Poland, , and lead economist in research department. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Global Policy Program, formerly senior associate, currently associate scholar.

Branko Milanovic is a Research Professor at the City University of New York and a Senior Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality.

Jugoslovenska privreda izmdu stagnacije i razvoja, Institute of Economic Sciences Belgrade, Yugoslavia , Sharpe Armonk, NY , World Bank research economist Branko Milanovic began his career with the international financial organization in , working as a country economist for Poland. During the early s he held a position as a research fellow with the Institute of Economic Sciences in Belgrade, Yugoslavia now Slovenia.

Most recently he has also been working as a visiting professor in economics at Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies, and at the University of Maryland. Milanovic was also named a senior associate for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Global Policy Program, and he still maintains a relationship as an associate scholar with the organization.

He specializes in questions of income distribution, poverty, globalization, and the spread of democracy. Milanovic's areas of specialization make him a respected authority in the area of post-Cold War economics.

Branko is a visiting professor at the City University in New York's graduate center, and he's a senior scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-.

His study Income, Inequality, and Poverty during the Transition from Planned to Market Economy looks in detail at the economic issues that faced the former Soviet republics following the collapse of the Soviet Union in The Soviet Union operated as a planned economy: variables such as wages, profits, and interest rates were set by the central government, which changed them according to their political needs, rather than allowing them to adjust in accordance to the changing market.

The ex-Soviet states had to drop their planned economies and switch or transition to market-driven economics. The results, in many cases, were painful for workers, used to the guarantees of the old Soviet system. Milanovic found that, in the early period following the collapse, transition economies disproportionately worsened the economic situation in the most vulnerable areas of the economy.