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Andy Sumner
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Professor of (International) Development Studies, King's College London / President @EADI / Fellow @UNU-WIDER @CGDev / Academy of Social Sciences

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Andy Sumner is an inter-disciplinary development economist. He has published extensively on global poverty, inequality and economic development including ten books.

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 23h
The development cooperation system is in flux, as donor retrenchment, US policy shifts, and rising Southern alternatives drive a fundamental contest over its purpose and future shape, writes @andypsumner.bsky.social

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 4d
Social Science Fiction "helps us imagine alternative social orders and institutional change, proving particularly useful for hypothesis generation"

✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2387
How Social Science Fiction Could Transform Development Research: Extending our Methodological Horizons
By Laura Camfield In an era of increasing complexity and uncertainty, conventional methodological approaches to pressing development concerns such as extreme income inequality often fall short. In …
www.developmentresearch.eu

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 6d
📣 Registration is now open for the EADI/IOB 2026 conference at @iobua.bsky.social !

✅ Register now and benefit from the early bird fee!

✅ Big discount for EADI members!
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...
EADI/IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local Solutions? 29 June – 2 July 2026, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium, Registration open! Early bird registration open until 30 March! Join us for our flagship event

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 12d
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"A new Independent North–South Commission could offer a credible response to today’s fragmentation by providing a structured space for international dialogue grounded in fairness, feasibility, and forward-thinking."

✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2283
Rebuilding Legitimacy for Global Governance: The Case for a New Independent Commission
By Andy Sumner, Stephan Klingebiel and Arief Anshory Yusuf The global landscape of development cooperation is fracturing. The promise of the 2030 Agenda and the pursuit of the Sustainable Developme…
www.developmentresearch.eu

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 12d
🆕 Our newsletter just went out, give it a quick scroll now!

✅ Featuring @inef-duisburg.bsky.social's "Prospects for Development and Peace", @horizoneu.bsky.social's funding opportunities for social sciences and picks & news from us and our member community
mailchi.mp/eadi/nl2janu...
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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 12d
Development cooperation is no longer evolving quietly. It’s being renegotiated in the open. Is 2025 the tipping point? asks @andypsumner.bsky.social and @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social

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IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social · 13d
This episode of Africafé examines how Africa’s #DevelopmentAid landscape is shifting amid major cuts by traditional donors and changing global priorities.

- With @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social and @andypsumner.bsky.social.

www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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Africafé : Aid and Development in Africa
YouTube video by Policy Center for the New South
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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 14d
2025 was a busy year for our blog, with 47 posts published, 10 "Decolonising Stories" and 10 in the "Trump and Development" series

➡️ Here are our top 5 from 2025!
www.developmentresearch.eu?cat=152
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IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social · 18d
@policycenterns.bsky.social hosted a seminar titled “Crisis or Opportunity? #Multilateralism in a Polycentric World" with contributions from Len Ishmael, @andypsumner.bsky.social &
@stephanklingebiel.bsky.social.

Watch the full session: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iQI...
Crisis or Opportunity? Multilateralism in a Polycentric World
YouTube video by Policy Center for the New South
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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 21d
Development cooperation is no longer evolving quietly. It’s being renegotiated in the open. Is 2025 the tipping point? asks @andypsumner.bsky.social and @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social

All Kings news: buff.ly/dxqts7Z

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IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social · 24d
@andypsumner.bsky.social & @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social assess how President Trump’s decision to quit 66 int. organisations continues the administration’s attempt to reshape the operating space for global #DevelopmentPolicy: www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/15/01/2... @globalpolicy.bsky.social

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 25d
Friends not Foes? Why Development Economics and Development Studies still need each other
By Professor @andypsumner.bsky.social, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social via @globaldevinst.bsky.social
buff.ly/HjYdqdJ

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IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social · 29d
#GlobalCooperation is under stress: does it represent a crisis or opportunity, and what does workable cooperation look like in a polycentric world?

By Len Ishmael, @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social & @andypsumner.bsky.social: www.idos-research.de/en/others-pu... @policycenterns.bsky.social

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IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social · Jan 9
@eadi.bsky.social @ettg.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

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IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social · Jan 9
With #Trump ’s return to the #WhiteHouse in January 2025, a significant phase in #InternationalAffairs, including global #DevelopmentPolicy, began.
@stephanklingebiel.bsky.social & @andypsumner.bsky.social describe the shift as the “New Washington Dissensus” (NWD).

📄 doi.org/10.23661/ipb...

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · Jan 6
⚠️ Attention!

For particular panels, the call for abstracts for our flagship conference has been extended until 14 January!

✅ Check which panels are still open for submissions!
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...
EADI/IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local Solutions? 29 June – 2 July 2026, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · Dec 19
⚠️ Only two more days to submit!

➡️ Don't miss our flagship event at @iobua.bsky.social next year!

✅ Choose from 44 seed and 22 harvest panels

⏰ is 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️!

www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...
Call for Abstracts - EADI/IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local Solutions?
29 June – 2 July 2026, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Deadline for submissions: 21 December 2025
www.eadi.org

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IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social · Dec 17
In @globalpolicy.bsky.social, @andypsumner.bsky.social & @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social argue that the old assumptions about who sets development policy norms, who pays, and who decides what counts as “cooperation” no longer seem to hold.

📄 www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/17/12/2...

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Dec 17
🎉Event recording: Global Politics and Development WG

'Global development cooperation at a crossroads - ground rules for partnership in a fragmented world?' held on 28 November joint with EADI 🌎

Find and watch the recording here! 👉 https://ow.ly/Q1jM50XKGRt

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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · Dec 13
Also see our reflection, legacy & assessment articles by @amirleb.bsky.social, Hazel Gray, Prabhat Patnaik, Pritish Behuria, @andypsumner.bsky.social, Baptiste Albertone, & Tin Hinane El Kadi.

In sum, a must read for knowing where the exciting debates of critical development studies are heading...

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · Dec 2
"Contemporary scholarship demonstrates that development is multidimensional, path-dependent, and often non-linear; that the experience of industrialized countries is neither universally transferable nor normatively desirable"

✍️ Our latest blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2409
Three Ideal Types for the Future of Development Cooperation
By José Antonio Alonso The international aid system is undergoing one of the most acute crises in its history. Although it is often portrayed primarily as a budgetary crisis—intensified by decision…
www.developmentresearch.eu

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · Nov 28
Join us and @mybisa.bsky.social today at 1 pm UK time for this online roundtable!

With Gloria Amézquita, Arief Anshory Yusuf, Taekyoon Kim, Emma Mawdsley, Iliana Olivié, Andrea Ordonez, Sebeka Plaatjie & @andypsumner.bsky.social

www.eadi.org/news-2/globa...
Global Development Cooperation at a Crossroads: What Ground Rules for Partnership in a Fragmented World? Online, 28 November 2025
Global development cooperation faces an era of profound uncertainty. Declining aid budgets, rising nationalism, and geopolitical rivalry are eroding the shared...
www.eadi.org

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IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social · Nov 24
@andypsumner.bsky.social and @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social ask: What does the #GlobalDevelopment architecture look like in this world five years from now?

The experts see four stylised visions emerging in competition. Which is most likely to prevail?
🔗 policybrief.org/briefs/compe...
Will the UK and the EU be Norm-Makers or Norm-Takers at the G7 and the G20? Competing visions of the global development architecture in 2030 - Policy Brief
Global development policy is going through an upheaval following the cuts in ODA (Official Development Assistance) by leading donors and the knock-on effects
policybrief.org

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · Nov 19
📣 Take our survey on future priorities of our association!

Your insights will make a meaningful difference, and we would be grateful to receive your responses within the next three weeks
www.eadi.org/news-2/surve...
Survey: Future Priorities for EADI
This May, EADI proudly celebrated 50 years of commitment to development research. Reaching this milestone offers us not only a moment to look back, but also an...
www.eadi.org

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · Nov 19
"This is not technical language. It sounds like a political signal that the G7 intends to reshape how development cooperation is organised, coordinated and justified."
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2398
The G7 and Global Development Architecture: Gradual Shift or Pivotal Moment?
By Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel In late 2025 the development cooperation architecture or system is being openly renegotiated rather than quietly adjusted. Will it be a gradual shift or w…
www.developmentresearch.eu

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · Nov 18
In our latest blog, @andypsumner.bsky.social (@kings-sga.bsky.social) and @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social (@idos-research.bsky.social) take the recent G7 Development Ministers’ Chair’s Summary as basis for their analysis

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · Nov 18
"Governments, parliaments, and non-state actors — who support what until recently was a broad global consensus on sustainable development need to find ways to counter the destructive influence of the Trump administration on established forums such as the G7 and G20"
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2398
The G7 and Global Development Architecture: Gradual Shift or Pivotal Moment?
By Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel In late 2025 the development cooperation architecture or system is being openly renegotiated rather than quietly adjusted. Will it be a gradual shift or w…
www.developmentresearch.eu

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IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social · Nov 6
In a new @globalpolicy.bsky.social article, @andypsumner.bsky.social (@eadi.bsky.social) and @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social take a look at the #G7 and the #GlobalDevelopment Architecture. What role does the year 2025 play?

🔗 www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/06/11/2...

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · Nov 4
Development cooperation at a tipping point: how, why and through what mechanisms do policy norms break? @eadi.bsky.social Blog and @idos-research.bsky.social working paper.

By @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social and @andypsumner.bsky.social
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UNU-WIDER @unu-wider.bsky.social · Oct 27
Global poverty affects 9.8%, 13.6%, 20%… or 48% of human population.
All true, depending on how you count.

Why do these numbers vary so much, and what do they really mean?

Find out in new background note by @andypsumner.bsky.social on global poverty:
👉 go.unu.edu/ICKR0
Picture of a hand holding a globe. Over it, text that reads "Background Note, Global Poverty - What do we know? Why do estimates vary so much?"