Books:

Milanovic, Branko. The Haves and the Have-nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality. New York: Basic, 2011.

Milanovic, Branko. Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2005.

Milanovic, Branko. Income Inequality and Poverty During the Transition from Planned to Market Economy. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1998.

Publications:

2014
“Global inequality of opportunity:  how much of our income is determined by where we live”, Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming, 2014).

“The return of ’patrimonial capitalism’: review of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st century”, Journal of Economic Literature, June 2014 (forthcoming).

(with Nicholas Sambanis)  “Explaining the demand for sovereignty”, World Bank Working Paper No. 5888, November 2011.  Revised version in Comparative Political Studies  (forthcoming).

“The level and distribution of income in mid-18th century France, according to François Quesnay”, Journal of the History of Economic Thought (forthcoming, 2014).
 
2013
(with Christoph Lakner), “Global income distribution:  from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Great Recession”, World Bank Working Paper No. 6719, December 2013.

“The inequality possibility frontier: extensions and new applications”, World Bank Working Paper No. 6449,  May 2013.

“Global income inequality in numbers: in history and now”, Global Policy, May 2013, pp. 198-208.

2012
“Globalization and inequality”, Introduction to the volume of selected readings, B. Milanovic (ed.), Globalization and inequality,  Edward Elgar, 2012.

“Global Inequality: From Class to Location, from Proletarians to Migrants”, Global Policy, vol. 3, No. 2, May 2012, pp. 124-133.

“Global inequality recalculated and updated: the effect of new PPP estimates on global inequality and 2005 estimates”, Journal of Economic Inequality, volume 10, issue 1, 2012, pp. 1-18.

(with Lire Ersado), “Reform and inequality during the transition: An analysis using panel household survey data, 1990-2005”, in Economies in Transition: The Long-Run View, edited by Gerard Roland, Palgrave, 2012, pp. 84-108.

2011
"A short history of global inequality: The past two centuries", Explorations in Economic History, vol. 48, (November) 2011, pp. 494-506.

(with Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson), “Pre-industrial inequality”, Economic Journal, March 2011, pp. 255-272.   

2010
“Income level and income inequality in the Euro-Mediterranean region: from the Principate to the Islamic conquest”, Winter 2010, unpublished draft.

"Four critiques of the redistribution hypothesis: An  assessment", European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 26, No. 1, March 2010, pp. 147-154.

(with Shale Horowitz and Karla Hoff),  "Turnover in Power as a Restraint on Investing in Influence: Evidence from the Post-Communist Transition", Economics and Politics, vol. 22, No. 3, November 2010, pp. 329-361.

2009
“Preindustrial inequality”, entry for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. December 2009.

(with Shale Horowitz and Karla Hoff) “Government turnover: concepts, measures, and applications”, European Journal of Political Research, vol. 48, March 2009, pp. 107-129.

(with Leif Wenar) “Are Liberal Peoples Peaceful?”, Journal of Political Philosophy,  Volume 17, Issue 4, pp. 462 – 486, July 2009.

2008
“Rules of redistribution and foreign aid: A proposal for a change in the rules governing eligibility for foreign aid”, Interventions, vol. 5, No. 1, 2008, pp. 197-214.

“Qat Expenditures in Yemen and Djibouti: An Empirical Analysis”, Journal of African Economies, Vol. 17, Issue 5, pp. 661-687, 2008. 

(with Francois Bourguignon, Francisco Ferreira and Martin Ravallion) “Global Inequality and Poverty”, entry for the Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, 2008.

(with Rafael Munoz de Bustillo), “La desigualidad de la distribucion de la renta en America Latina: Situacion, evolucion y factores explicativos”, America Latina Hoy, April 2008, vol. 48, pp. 15-42.

“Where in the world are you? Assessing the importance of circumstance and effort in a world of different mean country incomes and (almost) no migration”, World Bank Working Paper No. 4493, January 2008.
 
2007
“Global income inequality”, Soundings, Winter 2007, No. 37, pp. 58-65.
 
“Globalization and Inequality” in David Held and Ayse Kaya (eds.), Global Inequality: Patterns and Explanations, London: Polity Press, 2007, pp. 26-49.

2006
“An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000”, Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 52, No. 3, 2006, pp. 449-470.

“Global Income Inequality: A Review”, World Economics, vol. 7, No. 1, January-March 2006, pp. 131-153.

“La desigualdad mundial de la renta: qué es y por qué es importante” Principios: Estudios de Economia Politica, No. 5, 2006, pp. 35-56.
 
“Inequality and determinants of earnings in Malaysia, 1984-97”, Asian Economic Journal, vol. 20, No. 2, June 2006, pp. 191-216.
 
(with Lyn Squire), “Does Tariff liberalization increase wage inequality? Some empirical evidence”, in Ann Harrison (ed.), Globalization and Poverty, Chicago University Press, 2006.
 
“Economic integration and income convergence: not such a strong link?”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006. vol. 88, No, 4, November 2006. pp. 659-670.
 
2005
“Why did the poorest countries fail to catch up?”, Carnegie Working Paper No. 62, September 2005.

“Half a world: regional inequality in five great federations”, Journal of Asia Pacific Economy, vol. 10, No. 4, November 2005, pp. 408-445.

“Globalization and Goals: Does Soccer Show the Way?”, Review of International Political Economy, vol. 12, No.5, December 2005, pp. 829-850.

“Can We Discern the Effect of Globalization on Income Distribution? Evidence from Household Budget Surveys", World Bank Economic Review, No. 1, 2005, pp. 21-44.

2004
“Why We All Care About Inequality (But Are Loath to Admit It))”, Challenge Magazine, November-December 2007, vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 109-120.

(with Mark Gradstein), “Does Liberté=Egalité? A Survey of the Empirical Links Between Democracy and Inequality with Some Evidence on the Transition Economies”, Journal of Economic Surveys, vol. 18 No. 4,  pp. 515-537, September 2004.

(with Jean  Lanjouw, Peter Lanjouw. Stefano Paternostro). “Relative Price Shifts, Economies of Scale and Poverty during Economic Transition”, Economics of Transition, vol. 12, September 2004, pp. 509-536.

2003
“The Two Faces of Globalization: Against Globalization as We Know it”, World Development, April 2003, pp. 667-683.

“Is inequality in Africa really different?”, World Bank Research Working Paper No.  3169, Mat 2003.

2002
“Do we Tend to Overestimate poverty gaps? The Impact of Equivalency Scales on the Calculation of the Poverty Gap”, Applied Economics Letters, vol. 9, pp. 69-72, 2002. 

(with Shlomo Yitzhaki),  "Decomposing World Income Distribution: Does the World Have a Middle Class?", Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 48, No. 2, June 2002, pp. 155-178.

“True World Income Distribution, 1988 and 1993: First Calculations Based on Household Surveys Alone”, The Economic Journal, vol. 112, No. 476, January 2002, pp. 51-92.

2001
(with Ethan Kapstein), “Responding to Globalization: Social Policy in Emerging Market Economies”, Global Social Policy, pp. 191-212, No. 2, 2001.

(with Mark Gradstein and Yvonne Ying), "Democracy and Income Inequality: An Empirical Analysis", World Bank Policy Research Working Papers Series  No. 2561,  February  2001.

2000
“The Median Voter Hypothesis, Income Inequality and Income Redistribution: An Empirical Test with the Required Data”, European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 16, No.3, September 2000, pp. 367-410.

"Nations, Conglomerates, and Empires: The Trade-off between Income and Sovereignty", in D. Salvatore, M. Svetlicic, and J. Damijan (eds.) Small Countries in a Global Economy: New Challenges and Opportunities, Palgrave,  2000, pp. 25-70.

1999
(with Branko Jovanovic) “Change in the Perception of the Poverty Line during the Times of Depression: Russia 1993-96", World Bank Economic Review, vol. 13, No. 3, September 1999, pp. 531-560. 

1997
"A Simple Way to Calculate the Gini Coefficient, and Some Implications", Economics Letters 56, 1997, pp. 45-49.

1994
“Determinants of Cross-country Income Inequality: An Augmented Kuznets' Hypothesis", World Bank PRE Working Papers Series, No. 1246, January 1994.

"The Gini-type Functions: An Alternative Derivation", Bulletin of Economic Research, 1:1994, pp. 81-90.