Economic Growth
This chart reveals the most dramatic change in incomes since the first Industrial Revolution
In new research, Professor Branko Branko Milanovic looks at changes in global income distribution.
Branko Milanovic is Visiting Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center University of New York and Senior Scholar at Luxembourg Income Center. At the time of the writing of the paper he was with the World Bank Development Research Group. His most recent book is The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality, Basic books, 2011.
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