https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/ en https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/15/01/2026/global-development-policy-and-new-world-disorder-trump-administrations-delivery Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel assess how President Trump’s decision to quit 66 international organisations continuities the administration’s attempt to reshape the operating space for global… 15 January 2026 Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel 8139 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/17/12/2025/big-flag-issues-global-development-policy-2026-trump-20-chinas-status-russia Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel 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.  It… 17 December 2025 Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel 8113 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/26/09/2025/development-cooperation-tipping-point-how-do-policy-norms-break Stephan Klingebiel and Andy Sumner on the fragmentation of the global normative landscape and the need for pragmatic adaptation from policymakers. The global system of development cooperation is… 26 September 2025 Stephan Klingebiel and Andy Sumner 8012 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/27/06/2025/navigating-tipping-point-four-futures-global-development-cooperation In a new policy brief, Stephan Klingebiel and Andy Sumner discuss how and why the very foundations of international aid and development are being shaken by geopolitical shifts, contested norms,… 27 June 2025 Stephan Klingebiel and Andy Sumner  7880 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/03/06/2025/rebuilding-legitimacy-global-governance-case-new-independent-commission The global landscape of development cooperation is fracturing. The promise of the 2030 Agenda and the pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals is giving way to geopolitical tensions. The… 03 June 2025 Andy Sumner, Stephan Klingebiel and Arief Anshory Yusuf 7853 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/22/05/2025/search-plan-b-future-global-development-lies-minded-internationalism Len Ishmael, Stephan Klingebiel and Andy Sumner argue that states and coalitions must soon decide whether they will become norm-takers or norm-makers. As the world moves deeper into a decade marked… 22 May 2025 Len Ishmael, Stephan Klingebiel and Andy Sumner 7835 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/03/04/2025/new-washington-dissensus-5-principles-are-defining-trump-administrations-vision The Trump administration’s vision for development cooperation is becoming clearer. We identify 5 principles seemingly guiding actions. What can 36 questions tell us? The Trump administration has set… 03 April 2025 Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel 7780 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/12/07/2024/after-landslide-what-are-prospects-uk-eu-collaboration-global-development Andrew Sherriff and Andy Sumner explore the rocky road ahead for the new UK government’s relations with the EU. So, the UK has a new government. What does it mean for post-Brexit UK-EU relations? In… 12 July 2024 Andrew Sherriff and Andy Sumner 7463 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/27/06/2024/money-ministries-motives-and-meh-how-might-election-change-uk-development-policy Andy Sumner scopes the potential future of the UK's international development policy. The UK election is at hand. The campaign has been dominated by questions of what might change in the UK (or not… 27 June 2024 Andy Sumner 7439 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/11/06/2024/why-inequality-so-sticky-political-obstacles-fairer-economy Theory tells us that democracies should become more equal. So why are they still so unequal? Gideon Coolin, Emanuele Sapienza, and Andy Sumner on their new UNDP paper that unpicks… 11 June 2024 Gideon Coolin, Emanuele Sapienza, and Andy Sumner 7411 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/02/03/2022/above-or-below-poverty-line-three-key-questions-understanding-shifts-global-poverty Andy Sumner and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez examine global poverty trends in light of COVID-19. Please hover over and click on the graphics to expand them. In 2010 and the following years, there was… 02 March 2022 Andy Sumner and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez 6470 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/23/07/2020/after-covid-19-how-pull-sdg-hat-trick Christopher Hoy and Andy Sumner introduce a new paper exploring the possibility of ending global poverty in a post-pandemic world. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the largest economic… 23 July 2020 Christopher Hoy and Andy Sumner 5799 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/09/04/2020/will-covid-19-lead-half-billion-more-people-living-poverty-developing-countries The impacts of COVID-19 in developing countries are starting to be felt. The Economist went as far as to call it the ‘next calamity’, noting how overlooked the impact on poorer countries has… 09 April 2020 Andy Sumner, Chris Hoy and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez 5634 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/04/07/2018/rise-robot-reserve-army-working-hard-or-hardly-working Lukas Schlogl and Andy Sumner both of King’s College London are launching a new CGD paper today. To save you actually having to read it, they have helpfully picked out the… 04 July 2018 Lukas Schlogl and Andy Sumner 4763 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/26/06/2018/are-there-good-and-bad-varieties-deindustrialisation Deindustrialization has become the experience of many middle income developing countries. This week on the ESRC GPID blog we start a series of blogs on that topic. We’ve covered before the question… 26 June 2018 Andy Sumner 4753 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/11/07/2016/world%E2%80%99s-new-middles-implications-future-development-and-aid Andy Sumner lays out why international aid must continually revisit the tensions between structural transformations and inclusive growth if it is to address the problems facing a global precariat.… 11 July 2016 3462 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/30/09/2015/top-incomes-drive-inequality-%E2%80%93-so-why-does-inequality-target-ignore-them Time is running out for a global target on national income inequality. The current proposal actually allows for greater income concentration at the top of the chain. The final terms of the new global… 30 September 2015 Alex Cobham, Lukas Schlogl and Andy Sumner 2903 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/14/09/2015/end-global-poverty-philanthropy-welfare-capitalism-or-radically-different-global-eco Exploring his recent research paper with Peter Edward, Global Policy's Andy Sumner argues that if the collective aspiration is that no one is at risk of sliding into poverty ever again, then it is… 14 September 2015 2869 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/13/05/2015/when-does-one-dime-100-million-people Ending extreme poverty is likely to be one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. So it is a good idea to figure out what that entails. And it turns out that it’s become more complex in… 13 May 2015 2653 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/04/02/2015/what-does-end-global-poverty-look When does poverty end for an individual or country? The UN debate on ending global poverty and the forthcoming sustainable development goals has tended to focus on very poor people often defined as… 04 February 2015 Andy Sumner and Doug McAteer 2471 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/17/12/2014/1385-billion-question-when-does-foreign-aid-work Andy Sumner argues that it may be more useful to ask when aid works, not whether. The policy debate around whether foreign aid—now $138.5 billion a year—works has been polarized between the “Oh yes… 17 December 2014 2394 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/05/08/2014/indonesias-president-new-hope-poor As Joko Widodo is declared Indonesia’s President, new research has revealed the gap between richest & poorest has never been so great. Dr Arief Anshory Yusuf, Padjadjaran University, Indonesia… 05 August 2014 Arief Yusuf and Andy Sumner 2162 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/27/09/2013/inequality-all-about-tails-palma-gini-and-post-2015 Alex Cobham and Andy Sumner bring us up to date on the techie-but-important debate over how to measure inequality. It’s about six months since we triggered a good wonk-tastic discussion on Duncan… 27 September 2013 Alex Cobham and Andy Sumner 1583 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/24/07/2013/indonesia-low-income-high-poverty-high-income-no-poverty v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} In this blog post and video, Andy Sumner examines… 24 July 2013 1515 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/20/06/2013/whats-10-trillion-question Global consumption grew by $10 trillion from 1990 to 2010. So the $10 trillion question is who benefited and how much? In a new paper we explore who have been the winners and losers since 1990. And… 20 June 2013 Andy Sumner 1469 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/13/06/2013/poverty-geography-and-double-dilemma Andy Sumner speculates on the future role of aid agencies. Imagine a world without extreme poverty. The Economist did and in doing so joined others who have argued that extreme poverty - those who… 13 June 2013 Andy Sumner 1463 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/30/05/2013/progressive-policies-and-palma Andy Sumner and Alex Cobham examine why some countries manage direct tax evasion better than others. Debate on the role of inequality in the post-2015 framework has moved rapidly from ‘whether’ to ‘… 30 May 2013 Andy Sumner and Alex Cobham 1455 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/08/03/2013/can-obama-bend-it-bono What do Obama and Bono have in common? Both have proposed that the world should seek to end extreme poverty over the next twenty years or so. Obama said so in his annual state of the union address… 08 March 2013 1333 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/04/01/2013/international-aid-not-we-know-it There is a radically different context for international aid today than in the past – a context characterised by drastically fewer poor countries and an overwhelming concentration (around three-… 04 January 2013 Andy Sumner and Richard Mallett 1250