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Navigating the tipping point: four futures for global development cooperation

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner
External Publications (2025)

27.06.2025, Online

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, and institutional upheaval. The brief argues that the crisis is not a mere cyclical downturn, or nor is it only about money, but a fundamental reordering of the global development landscape. In short, a "tipping point" in the sense of a dramatic moment when incremental changes coalesce into a transformative shift, for better or worse, is in the offing. We ask what might come next.

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