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Sanjeev Gupta

Researcher at Center for Global Development

Publications -  196
Citations -  14186

Sanjeev Gupta is an academic researcher from Center for Global Development. The author has contributed to research in topics: Revenue & Fiscal policy. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 195 publications receiving 13246 citations. Previous affiliations of Sanjeev Gupta include International Monetary Fund & University of Toronto.

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Does Corruption Affect Income Inequality and Poverty

TL;DR: This article showed that high and rising corruption increases income inequality and poverty by reducing economic growth, the progressivity of the tax system, the level and effectiveness of social spending, and the formation of human capital, and by perpetuating an unequal distribution of asset ownership and unequal access to education.
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Does corruption affect income inequality and poverty

TL;DR: The authors showed that an increase of one standard deviation in corruption increases the Gini coefficient of income inequality by about 11 points and income growth of the poor by about 5 percentage points per year.
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Effect of Remittances on Poverty and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

TL;DR: The authors assesses the effect of the steadily growing remittance flows to sub-Saharan Africa and finds that remittances, which are a stable, private transfer, have a direct poverty-mitigating effect, and promote financial development.
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Corruption and the Provision of Health Care and Education Services

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of corruption on the public provision of social services has been analyzed and shown that reducing corruption can result in significant social gains as measured by decreases in child and infant mortality rates, percent of low-birthweight babies, and primary school dropout rates.