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Andy Sumner - Research Fellow

Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction
E: andrew.sumner@kcl.ac.uk

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Administrator:
Deborah Shenton

Thematic Expertise:
Aid; Poverty; Poverty Inequality and Wellbeing.

Geographic Expertise:
South East Asia.

Andy Sumner is an associate of the VPR team. He is Co-Director of the King's International Development Institute at King's College London, a newly established institute that has a particular focus on the emerging economies.

Prior to King’s, he was a Research Fellow in the VPR team IDS.

Andy is an inter-disciplinary Development Economist with research interests in the fields of global poverty, economic development and inequality with reference to middle-income countries and emerging economies. His primary regional focus is Southeast Asia and Indonesia in particular.

He is a Vice-President of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes and a council member of the Development Studies Association.

In 2011 he was listed in Foreign Policy magazine’s ‘Top 100 Global Thinkers’.

His recent work on the ‘new bottom billion’ in middle-income countries has been covered recently by the Economist and Voice of America.

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The Micro-Economics of the Crisis: Identifying the Vulnerable from National Quantitative Data
IDS has already conducted a qualitative analysis of the social impact of the crisis in five countries. This research project aims to use the results from a new round of qualitative research to inform detailed quantitative analysis of existing nationally representative quantitative surveys in two countries.

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The New Bottom Billion
New IDS research shows that the global poverty 'problem' is changing. There is a new 'bottom billion' of 960m poor people or 72 per cent of the world's poor who live not in poor countries but in middle-income countries (MICs).

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The Evolving Composition of Poverty in Middle-Income Countries: The Case of Indonesia, 1991–2007

 IDS Working Paper 409 (2012)
Sumner, A.

The New Face of Poverty: How has the Composition of Poverty in Low Income and Lower Middle-Income Countries (excluding China) Changed since the 1990s?

 IDS Working Paper 408 (2012)
Sumner, A.

Beyond Low and Middle Income Countries: What if There Were Five Clusters of Developing Countries?

 IDS Working Paper 404 (2012)
Tezanos, S. and Sumner, A.

Where will the World’s Poor Live? Global Poverty Projections for 2020 and 2030

 IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 26 (2012)
Sumner, A.

MDGs 2.0: What Goals, Targets and Timeframe?

 IDS Working Paper 398 (2012)
Karver, J., Kenny, C. and Sumner, A.

From Deprivation to Distribution: Is Global Poverty Becoming A Matter of National Inequality?

 IDS Working Paper 394 (2012)
Sumner, A.

Where Do The World’s Poor Live? A New Update

 IDS Working Paper 393 (2012)
Sumner, A.

What Do National Poverty Lines Tell Us About Global Poverty?

 IDS Working Paper 392 (2012)
Gentilini, U. and Sumner, A.

Reframing Aid in a World Where the Poor Live in Emerging Economies

 International Development Policy (2012)
Carbonnier, G. and Sumner, A.

What do National Poverty Lines tell us about Global Poverty?

 (2012)
Gentilini, U. and Sumner, A

Poverty and Inequalities in Middle-Income Southeast Asia

 (2012)
Sumner, A., Suryahadi, A. and Thang, N.

Aid: A Survey in Light of Changes in the Distribution of Global Poverty

 (2012)
Sumner, A. and Mallett, R.

Where Will The World’s Poor Live? A briefing on Global Poverty Projections for 2020 and 2030

 (2012)
Sumner, A.

Global Poverty and the “New Bottom Billion” Revisited: Exploring The Paradox That Most Of The World’s Extreme Poor No Longer Live In The World’s Poorest Countries

 (2012)
Sumner, A.

Is Global Poverty Rapidly Becoming A Matter Of National Inequality?

 (2012)
Sumner, A.

Poverty in Middle-Income Countries

 (2011)
Sumner, A.

Poverty in Middle-Income Countries

 Bellagio Initiative Briefing Summary (2011)
Sumner, A.

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 (2011)
Glassman, A., Duran, D. and Sumner, A.

Where Do The Poor Live?

 World Development (In Press) (2011)
Sumner, A.

Poor Countries or Poor People? Development Assistance and the New Geography of Global Poverty

 CEPR Discussion Paper 8489 (2011)
Kanbur, R. and Sumner, A.
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