Institute of Development Studies

Biography

Academic focus: Development Economist working on global poverty and inequality, with particular reference to middle-income countries; poverty/wellbeing conceptualisation and contemporary history of Development Studies; Primary regional interest in Southeast Asia.

Current position(s): Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex; Visiting Fellow, Centre for Global Development, Washington, DC.

Publications: Six books on poverty and public policy and a number of peer-reviewed articles in ISI ranked journals including World Development, Journal of International Development, and European Journal of Development Research; Series Co-editor for Palgrave MacMillan's ‘Rethinking International Development’.

Policy-related work: Seconded to the UK Department for International Development (DfID) Policy Division in 2010 as a Senior Adviser; member of UNICEF Social and Economic Policy Advisory Group; Advisory work for UNDP.

Other: Vice-President of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI); Council member of the Development Studies Association (DSA); listed in Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2011; Chair, Global Development Network Awards for Poverty Research (2006–9); IDS Head of Teaching Programmes (2008–10); IDS Strategic Management Group and IDS Faculty Review and Promotions Board (2008–10); Chair, IDS Research Ethics Committee (2007–10).

Links
Read Andy's Global Dashboard blog
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Selected Projects and Recent Work

• The New Bottom Billion

Thematic Expertise

Inequality; Poverty.

Geographic Expertise

South East Asia.

Selected Publications »»

• Sumner, A. (2011) 'Poverty in Middle-Income Countries', Bellagio Initiative Briefing Summary , Brighton: IDS
• Sumner, A. (2011) 'Poverty in Middle-Income Countries' , Brighton: IDS
• Glassman, A., Duran, D. and Sumner, A. (2011) 'Global Health and the New Bottom Billion: What Do Shifts in Global Poverty and the Global Disease Burden Mean for GAVI and the Global Fund?', CGD Working Paper 270, Washington, DC: Center for Global Development
• Sumner, A. (2011) 'Where Do The Poor Live?', World Development (In Press), Amsterdam: Elsevier
• Kanbur, R. and Sumner, A. (2011) 'Poor Countries or Poor People? Development Assistance and the New Geography of Global Poverty', CEPR Discussion Paper 8489, London: Centre for Economic Policy Research
• Sumner, A. (2011) 'Where do the Poor Live? An Update' , Brighton: IDS
• Jones, N.A. and Sumner, A. (2011) Child Poverty, Evidence and Policy: Mainstreaming Children in International Development, London:
• Sumner, A. (2011) 'The New Bottom Billion: What If Most of the World’s Poor Live in Middle-Income Countries?', Centre for Global Development (CGD) Policy Brief , Washington, DC: CGD
• Masset, E., Mulmi, R. and Sumner, A. (2011) 'Does Research Reduce Poverty? Assessing the Welfare Impacts of Policy-oriented Research in Agriculture', IDS Working Paper 360, Brighton: IDS
• Masset, M., Mulmi, R. and Sumner, A. (2011) 'Does Research Reduce Poverty? Assessing the Welfare Impacts of Policy-oriented Research in Agriculture', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 360, Brighton: IDS
• Kanbur, R. and Sumner, A. (2011) 'Poor Countries or Poor People? Development Assistance and the New Geography of Global Poverty', Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management Working Paper , Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
• Sumner, A. (2010) 'Global Poverty and the New Bottom Billion: Three-quarters of the World's Poor Live in Middle-income Countries', IDS Working Paper 349, Brighton: IDS
• Sumner, A. and Tiwari, M. (2010) 'Global Poverty Reduction to 2015 and Beyond: What has Been the Impact of the MDGs and What are the Options for a Post-2015 Global Framework?', IDS Research Summary of IDS Working Paper 348, Brighton: IDS
• Sumner, A. and Tiwari, M. (2010) 'Global Poverty Reduction to 2015 and Beyond: What Has Been the Impact of the MDGs and What are the Options for a Post-2015 Global Framework?', IDS Working Paper 348, Brighton: IDS
• Sumner, A. (2010) 'The New Bottom Billion and the MDGs – A Plan of Action', IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 16.1, Brighton: IDS