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Development cooperation at a tipping point: how do policy norms break?

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner
External Publications (2025)

published on globalpolicyjournal.com, 26.09.2025

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The global system of development cooperation is entering uncertain territory. For decades, multilateralism and global solidarity shaped the expectations of how global development policy should be organised and justified. These norms provided a degree of stability, even if practice often fell short. In a new Discussion Paper we argue that those assumptions can no longer be taken for granted.

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