The new flexi-lateralism: five building blocks for development cooperation in a fractured world
Sumner, Andy / Len Ishmael / Stephan Klingebiel (2026)
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The OECD Conference on the Future of International Development Co-operation (which is set to take place in Paris on 11-12 May 2026) comes at a moment of acute strain. OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) countries' official development assistance fell by almost a quarter in 2025, and is projected to fall further in 2026. The US has withdrawn from or defunded dozens of multilateral bodies. Development cooperation, long predicated on a stable Western-led institutional order, is now operating in conditions marked by contested policy norms and shrinking public finance. The question confronting delegates in Paris is not whether cooperation is changing. It is how any new configuration will work in practice.