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(Andrew) AM Fischer

Profile

Andrew Martin Fischer is Associate Professor of Social Policy and Development Studies at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, part of Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also the Scientific Director of CERES, The Dutch Research School for International Development; founding editor of the book series of the UK Development Studies Association published by Oxford University Press, entitled Critical Frontiers of International Development Studies; and editor at the journal Development and Change. His latest book, Poverty as Ideology (Zed, 2018), was awarded the International Studies in Poverty Prize by the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) and Zed Books and, as part of the award, is now fully open access (http://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/20614). He earned his PhD in Development Studies from the London School of Economics (LSE) and has been involved in development studies for over 30 years, including time spent living and working in Central America, India, Nepal and Western China. Fischer’s current research is focused on the role of redistribution in development at local, regional and global scales and its interaction with finance and production. He led a European Research Council Starting Grant on the political economy of externally financing social policy in developing countries.

• Featured publications (9)

  • A.M. Fischer (2020). The Dark Sides of Social Policy: From Neoliberalism to Resurgent Right-wing Populism. Development and Change, 51 (2), 371-397. doi: 10.1111/dech.12577 [go to publisher's site]
  • A.M. Fischer (2019). Bringing Development Back into Development Studies. Development and Change, 50 (2), 426-444. doi: 10.1111/dech.12490
  • A.M. Fischer (2018). Poverty as Ideology: Rescuing Social Justice from Global Development Agendas. (International Studies in Poverty). London: Zed Books [go to publisher's site]
  • A.M. Fischer (2018). Debt and development in historical perspective: The external constraints of late industrialisation revisited through South Korea and Brazil. The World Economy, 41 (12), 3359-3378. doi: 10.1111/twec.12625
  • A.M. Fischer & A. Zenz (2018). The Limits to Buying Stability in Tibet: Tibetan Representation and Preferentiality in China's Contemporary Public Employment System. China Quarterly, 234, 527-551. doi: 10.1017/S0305741017001710 [go to publisher's site]
  • A.M. Fischer (2015). Subsidizing Tibet: An Interprovincial Comparison of Western China up to the End of the Hu–Wen Administration. China Quarterly, 221 (March), 73-99. doi: 10.1017/S0305741014001581
  • A.M. Fischer (2015). The End of Peripheries? On the Enduring Relevance of Structuralism for Understanding Contemporary Global Development. Development and Change, 46 (4), 700-732. doi: 10.1111/dech.12180
  • A.M. Fischer (2014). Redistribution as social justice for decarbonising the global economy. The Economic and Labour Relations Review (print), 25 (4), 574-586. doi: 10.1177/1035304614558165 [go to publisher's site]
  • A.M. Fischer (2014). The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China: a Study in the Economics of Marginalization. (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University). Lanham, MD: Lexington (Rowman and Littlefield) [go to publisher's site]

• All publications (129)

  • Key publication (9)

    • A.M. Fischer (2020). The Dark Sides of Social Policy: From Neoliberalism to Resurgent Right-wing Populism. Development and Change, 51 (2), 371-397. doi: 10.1111/dech.12577 [go to publisher's site]
    • A.M. Fischer (2019). Bringing Development Back into Development Studies. Development and Change, 50 (2), 426-444. doi: 10.1111/dech.12490
    • A.M. Fischer (2018). Poverty as Ideology: Rescuing Social Justice from Global Development Agendas. (International Studies in Poverty). London: Zed Books [go to publisher's site]
    • A.M. Fischer (2018). Debt and development in historical perspective: The external constraints of late industrialisation revisited through South Korea and Brazil. The World Economy, 41 (12), 3359-3378. doi: 10.1111/twec.12625
    • A.M. Fischer & A. Zenz (2018). The Limits to Buying Stability in Tibet: Tibetan Representation and Preferentiality in China's Contemporary Public Employment System. China Quarterly, 234, 527-551. doi: 10.1017/S0305741017001710 [go to publisher's site]
    • A.M. Fischer (2015). Subsidizing Tibet: An Interprovincial Comparison of Western China up to the End of the Hu–Wen Administration. China Quarterly, 221 (March), 73-99. doi: 10.1017/S0305741014001581
    • A.M. Fischer (2015). The End of Peripheries? On the Enduring Relevance of Structuralism for Understanding Contemporary Global Development. Development and Change, 46 (4), 700-732. doi: 10.1111/dech.12180
    • A.M. Fischer (2014). Redistribution as social justice for decarbonising the global economy. The Economic and Labour Relations Review (print), 25 (4), 574-586. doi: 10.1177/1035304614558165 [go to publisher's site]
    • A.M. Fischer (2014). The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China: a Study in the Economics of Marginalization. (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University). Lanham, MD: Lexington (Rowman and Littlefield) [go to publisher's site]

  • Article (33)

    • Scholarly Publication (32)

      • J.O. Adesina, A.M. Fischer & N. Hoffmann (2021). Reflections on Aid and Regime Change in Ethiopia: A Response to Cheeseman. Codesria bulletin, January (1), 1-5. [go to publisher's site]
      • B. Büscher, G. Feola, A.M. Fischer, R. Fletcher, R., J.F. Gerber, K. Martijn, M. Spirenburg, V. Walstra & H. Wiskerke (2021). Planning for a World beyond COVID-19: Five Pillars for Post-Neoliberal Development. World Development, 140 (April). doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105357
      • A.M. Fischer (2020). The Dark Sides of Social Policy: From Neoliberalism to Resurgent Right-wing Populism. Development and Change, 51 (2), 371-397. doi: 10.1111/dech.12577 [go to publisher's site]
      • A.M. Fischer (2019). On the Origins and Legacies of Really Existing Capitalism: In Conversation with Kari Polanyi Levitt. Development and Change, 50 (2), 542-572. doi: 10.1111/dech.12480
      • A.M. Fischer (2019). Bringing Development Back into Development Studies. Development and Change, 50 (2), 426-444. doi: 10.1111/dech.12490
      • A.M. Fischer (2019). Aiding Social Protection. DevISSues, 21 (2).
      • A.M. Fischer (2018). Debt and development in historical perspective: The external constraints of late industrialisation revisited through South Korea and Brazil. The World Economy, 41 (12), 3359-3378. doi: 10.1111/twec.12625
      • A.M. Fischer & A. Zenz (2018). The Limits to Buying Stability in Tibet: Tibetan Representation and Preferentiality in China's Contemporary Public Employment System. China Quarterly, 234, 527-551. doi: 10.1017/S0305741017001710 [go to publisher's site]
      • A.M. Fischer (2016). On the Macroeconomics of Universalistic Social Policy and Economic and Social Rights. Global Social Policy, 16 (1), 97-104. doi: 10.1177/1468018115624314b [go to publisher's site]
      • A.M. Fischer (2015). Subsidizing Tibet: An Interprovincial Comparison of Western China up to the End of the Hu–Wen Administration. China Quarterly, 221 (March), 73-99. doi: 10.1017/S0305741014001581
      • A.M. Fischer (2015). The End of Peripheries? On the Enduring Relevance of Structuralism for Understanding Contemporary Global Development. Development and Change, 46 (4), 700-732. doi: 10.1111/dech.12180
      • A.M. Fischer (2014). Redistribution as social justice for decarbonising the global economy. The Economic and Labour Relations Review (print), 25 (4), 574-586. doi: 10.1177/1035304614558165 [go to publisher's site]
      • A.M. Fischer (2012). The geopolitics of politico-religious protest in Eastern Tibet. Cultural Anthropology. Retrieved from http://www.culanth.org/files/HotSpot-Fischer.pdf [go to publisher's site]
      • A.M. Fischer (2011). Beware the fallacy of productivity reductionism. European Journal of Development Research, 23 (4), 521-526. doi: 10.1057/ejdr.2011.25
      • A.M. Fischer & U. Kothari (2011). A challenge for research in development studies on values, ethics and morals. Journal of International Development, 23 (6), 767-770. doi: 10.1002/jid.1816
      • A.M. Fischer (2011). The great transformation of Tibet? Rapid labor transitions in times of rapid growth in the Tibet autonomous region. Himalaya. The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 30 (1-2), 63-77. [go to publisher's site]
      • A.M. Fischer (2010). Is China turning Latin? China's balancing act between power and dependence in the lead up to global crisis. Journal of International Development, 22 (6), 739-757. doi: 10.1002/jid.1727
      • A.M. Fischer (2010). Towards genuine universalism within contemporary development policy. IDS Bulletin, 41 (1), 36-44.
      • A.M. Fischer (2010). Zhongguo zhengzai lameihua ma? zai quanqiu shiheng langchaozhong, zhongguo zai shili yu yifuxing zhijian de pingheng xingwei (translation: Is China Turning Latin? China's balancing act between power and dependence on the wave of global imbalances). Zhengzhi Jingjixue Pinglun (translation: China Review of Political Economy) , 16 (4), 36-53. [go to publisher's site]
      • A.M. Fischer (2010). A land called Tibet. India international centre quarterly, 36 (3/4), 234-251.
      • A.M. Fischer (2010). Aid as power in an unequal world. The Broker. Retrieved from http://www.thebrokeronline.eu/Blogs/From-Aid-to-Global-Justice/Less-pretension-more-ambition/Andrew-M.-Fischer-Aid-as-power-in-an-unequal-world
      • A.M. Fischer (2010). The demographic imperative: managing population growth. The Broker, 22, 4-8. [go to publisher's site]
      • K. Bauer, G. Childs, S. Craig & A.M. Fischer (2010). [Introduction] Development in Tibet: land, labor and social policy in a context of rapid transition. Himalaya. The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 30 (1-2), 7-8.
      • A.M. Fischer (2009). L¿économie politique de l¿« aide boomerang » dans la Région autonome du Tibet. Perspectives chinoises, 2009 (3), 41-59.
      • A.M. Fischer (2009). Andrew Fischer: reflections after Brussels. The Broker, 2009 (17).
      • A.M. Fischer (2009). The Political Economy of Boomerang Aid in China¿s Tibet. China Perspectives, 2009 (3), 38-54.
      • A.M. Fischer (2009). Andrew Fischer: reclaiming the MDG agenda. The Broker, 2009 (17).
      • A.M. Fischer (2009). Putting aid in its place: insights from early structuralists on aid and balance of payments and lessons for contemporary aid debates. Journal of International Development, 21, 856-867. doi: 10.1002/jid.1623
      • A.M. Fischer (2008). Subsistence and Rural Livelihood Strategies in Tibet under Rapid Economic and Social Transition. Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, 2008 (4), 1-49.
      • A.M. Fischer (2008). Back to Reality on Tibet. Alternatives International Journal, 1 (1).
      • A.M. Fischer (2008). Population Invasion versus Urban Exclusion in the Tibetan Areas of Western China. Population and Development Review, 34 (4), 631-662. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2008.00244.x
      • A.M. Fischer (2008). "Population Invasion" versus Urban Exclusion in the Tibetan Areas of Western China. Population and Development Review, 34 (4), 631-662.

    • Professional Publication (1)

      • A.M. Fischer (2008). Reaping Tibet¿s Whirlwind. Far Eastern Economic Review, 2008 (March).

  • Book / Monograph / Book editorial (4)

    • A.M. Fischer (2018). Poverty as Ideology: Rescuing Social Justice from Global Development Agendas. (International Studies in Poverty). London: Zed Books [go to publisher's site]
    • A.M. Fischer (2014). The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China: a Study in the Economics of Marginalization. (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University). Lanham, MD: Lexington (Rowman and Littlefield) [go to publisher's site]
    • A.M. Fischer (2012). Inequality and the universalistic principle in the post-2015 development agenda. (Addressing Inequalities. The heart of the post-2015 development agenda and the future we want for all.). s.l.: World We Want 2015
    • A.M. Fischer (2005). State Growth and Social Exclusion in Tibet: Challenges of Recent Economic Growth. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press

  • Part of book - Chapter (16)

    • A.M. Fischer (2015). Economic Restructuring and Labor Market Reforms in Amdo, Qinghai: Insights into Contemporary Tibetan-Muslim Conflict. In M-P. Hille, B. Horlemann & P.K. Nietupski (Eds.), Muslims in Amdo Tibetan Society: Multidisciplinary Approaches (Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture) (pp. 207-227). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
    • A.M. Fischer (2015). dpal 'byor kong 'phel (Tibetan translation of 'Economic Development'). In A-M. Blondeau & K. Buffetrille (Eds.), bod don dag skyel, rgya nag gzhung gi dri gzhi brgya la dris lan (Tibetan translation of Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's 100 Questions) (Lo rgyus deb 'phreng, 18) (pp. 389-463). Dharamsala, H.P., India: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (original by University of California Press)
    • A.M. Fischer (2015). mi 'bor (Tibetan translation of 'Population'). In A-M. Blondeau & K. Buffetrille (Eds.), bod don dag skyel, rgya nag gzhung gi dri gzhi brgya la dris lan (Tibetan translation of Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's 100 Questions) (Lo rgyus deb 'phreng, 18) (pp. 217-254). Dharamsala, H.P., India: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (original by University of California Press)
    • A.M. Fischer (2014). The Social Value of Employment and the Redistributive Imperative for Development. In K Malik (Ed.), Safeguarding Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities, Building Resistance (pp. 81-149). New York: UNDP Human Development Report Office
    • A.M. Fischer (2014). Labour Transitions and Social Inequalities in Tibet and Xinjiang: a comparative analysis of the structural foundations of discrimination and protest. In T Brox & I Bellér-Hann (Eds.), On the Fringes of the Harmonious Society: Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China (NIAS Studies in Asian Topics) (pp. 29-67). Copenhagen: NIAS Press [go to publisher's site]
    • A.M. Fischer (2013). The Political within the Depoliticised: Poverty Measurement and Implicit Agendas in the MDGs. In M Langford, A Sumner & A.E. Yamin (Eds.), The MDGs and Human Rights: Past, Present and Future (pp. 119-142). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
    • A.M. Fischer (2012). The great transformation of Tibet? Rapid labor transitions in time of rapid growth in the Tibet Autonomous Region. In K. Bauer, G. Childs, S. Craig & A.M. Fischer (Eds.), Development transitions: land, labor and social policy in Tibet (pp. 124-157). Kathmandu: Himal Books (for Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies)
    • A.M. Fischer (2012). Introduction. In K. Bauer, G. Childs, S. Craig & A.M. Fischer (Eds.), Development transitions: land, labor and social policy in Tibet (pp. vi-x). Kathmandu: Himal Books (for Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies)
    • A.M. Fischer (2012). The perils of paradigm maintenance in the face of crisis. In P. Utting, S. Razavi & R. Buchholz (Eds.), The global crisis and transformative social change (pp. 43-62). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
    • A.M. Fischer (2011). Chinese savings gluts or northern financialisation? The ideological expediency of crisis narratives. In P.A.G. Bergeijk, A..de Haan & R..van.der Hoeven (Eds.), The financial crisis and developing countries : a global multidisciplinary perspective (pp. 85-100). Cheltenham [etc.]: Edward Elgar Publishing
    • A.M. Fischer (2008). Tibet. In Sara Daniel (Ed.), Guerres D'aujourd'hui: Pourquoi ces conflits? Peut-on les resoudre? (pp. 407-453) Paris: Editions De La Villa
    • A.M. Fischer (2008). Population. In Anne-Marie Blondeau & Katia Buffetrille (Eds.), Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's One-Hundred Questions. Berkeley: University of California Press
    • A.M. Fischer (2008). Economic development. In Anne-Marie Blondeau & Katia Buffetrille (Eds.), Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's One-Hundred Questions (pp. 239-279). Berkeley: University of California Press
    • A.M. Fischer (2008). The Muslim Cook, the Tibetan Client, his Lama and their Boycott: Modern religious discourses of anti-Muslim economic activism in Amdo. In Toni Huber & Fernanda Pirie (Eds.), Conflict and social order in Tibet and Inner Asia (pp. 159-192). Leiden: Brill
    • A.M. Fischer (2008). Livelihood of the people. In Anne-Marie Blondeau & Katia Buffetrille (Eds.), Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's One-Hundred Questions (pp. 298-301). Berkeley: University of California Press
    • A.M. Fischer (2008). Population. In Anne-Marie Blondeau & Katia Buffetrille (Eds.), Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's One-Hundred Questions (pp. 133-155). Berkeley: University of California Press

  • Book editorship (1)

    • K. Bauer, G. Childs, S. Craig & A.M. Fischer (Ed.). (2012). Development transitions: land, labor and social policy in Tibet. Kathmandu: Himal Books (for Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies)

  • Book review (3)

    • A.M. Fischer (2013). 'Tibetanness’ under Threat? Neo-integrationism, Minority Education and Career Strategies in Qinghai, P.R. China. [Bespreking van het boek 'Tibetanness’ under Threat? Neo-integrationism, Minority Education and Career Strategies in Qinghai, P.R. China]. China Quarterly, 219, 886-888. doi: 10.1017/S0305741014000927
    • A.M. Fischer (2009). Geoff Childs: Tibetan Transitions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Fertility, Family Planning, and Demographic Change. [Bespreking van het boek Tibetan Transitions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Fertility, Family Planning, and Demographic Change]. Population and Development Review, 35(1), 202-204. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00268.x
    • A.M. Fischer (2007). Review of Gray Tuttle, Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China. [Bespreking van het boek Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China]. Nations and Nationalism : Journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, 13(2), 362-364.

  • Journal editorship / Referee (8)

    • A.M. Fischer (Ed.). (2020-2020) Development and Change, 51(2).
    • A.M. Fischer & U. Kothari (Eds.). (2011-2011) Journal of International Development, 2011(virtual issue: Resillience in an unequal capitalist world). [go to publisher's site]
    • A.M. Fischer & U. Kothari (Eds.). (2011-2011) Journal of International Development.
    • K. Bauer, G. Childs, A.M. Fischer & S. Craig (Eds.). (2011-2011) Himalaya. The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 30(1-2).
    • A.M. Fischer & U. Kothari (Eds.). (2011-2011) Journal of International Development, 23(6 (special issue for DSA 2010)). doi: 10.1002/jid.1816
    • G. Wood, U. Kothari & A.M. Fischer (Eds.). (2010-2010) Journal of International Development, 23(6). doi: 10.1002/jid.1816
    • A.M. Fischer (Ed.). (2009-2009) DevISSues, 11(1).
    • A.M. Fischer, K. Bauer & G. Childs (Eds.). (2008-2008) Journal of International Association of Tibetan Studies, 2008(4).

  • Report (23)

    • A.M. Fischer (2017). Dilemmas of externally financing domestic expenditures: Rethinking the political economy of aid and social protection through the monetary transformation dilemma. (Preprints, ISS working papers. General series, no 629). The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies
    • A.M. Fischer (2016). Aid and the symbiosis of global redistribution and development: Comparative historical lessons from two icons of development studies. (Preprints, ISS working papers. General series, no 618). The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies
    • A.M. Fischer & A. Zenz (2016). The evolution of Tibetan representation and preferentiality in public employment during the Postfenpei period in China: Insights from new data sources. (Preprints, ISS working papers, General series, no 620). The Hague: Institute of Social Studies
    • A.M. Fischer (2014). The Social Value of Employment and the Redistributive Imperative of Development. (Preprints, Occasional Paper). New York: UNDP Human Development Report Office [go to publisher's site]
    • A.M. Fischer (2012). Provincial migration in China : Preliminary insights from the 2010 population census. (Preprints, ISS working papers. General series, no 541). The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies
    • A.M. Fischer (2012). The revenge of fiscal Maoism in China¿s Tibet. (Preprints, ISS working papers. General series, no 547). The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies
    • A.M. Fischer (2011). Reconceiving social exclusion. (Extern rapport, BWPI Working Paper, no 146). Manchester: Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester
    • A.M. Fischer (2010). Is China turning Latin? China's balancing act between power and dependence on the wave of global imbalances. (Preprints, ISS working papers. General series, no 496). The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies
    • A.M. Fischer (2010). The great China currency debate: for workers or speculators? (Extern rapport, G-24 Policy Brief, no 56). s.l.: s.n. [go to publisher's site]
    • A.M. Fischer (2010). The population question and development: the need for a debate in the Netherlands. (Intern rapport). s.l.: Society for International Development, Netherlands’ Chapter [go to publisher's site]
    • A.M. Fischer (2009). Towards Genuine Universalism within Contemporary Development Policy. (Extern rapport). Brussels: After 2015 Policy Forum
    • A.M. Fischer (2009). Educating for Exclusion in Western China: Structural and institutional dimensions of conflict in the Tibetan areas of Qinghai and Tibet. (Extern rapport, CRISE working paper, no 69). Oxford: Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity
    • A.M. Fischer (2008). Resolving the theoretical ambiguities of social exclusion with reference to polarisation and conflict. (Extern rapport, DESTIN Working Paper series, no 08-90). London: London School of Economics
    • A.M. Fischer (2007). Perversities of Extreme Dependence and Unequal Growth in the TAR. (Extern rapport, Tibet Watch Special Report). London: Tibet Watch
    • A.M. Fischer (2006). Subsistence capacity: the commodification of rural labour re-examined through the case of Tibet. (Preprints, DESTIN Working Paper, no 06-75). London: London School of Economics
    • A.M. Fischer (2005). Close Encounters of an Inner Asian Kind: Tibetan-Muslim co-existence and conflict past and present. (Preprints, Crisis States Working Paper, no 68). London: London School of Economics
    • A.M. Fischer (2004). Economic dimensions of autonomy and right to development in Tibet. (Extern rapport). Montreal, Canada: Rights and Democracy
    • A.M. Fischer (2004). Central Lhasa Gets Facelift with 'Tibetan Characteristics'. (Extern rapport). s.l.: Tibetan Information Network
    • A.M. Fischer (2004). Urban fault lines in Shangri-La: population and economic foundations of interethnic conflict in the Tibetan areas of western China. (Preprints, CSRC Working Papers, no 42). London: CSRC
    • A.M. Fischer (2003). Despite economic boom, rural standards of living in the Tibet Autonomous Region still below 1992 levels. s.l.: Tibetan Information Network (TIN)
    • A.M. Fischer (2003). Deciphering economic growth in the Tibet Autonomous Region. s.l.: Tibetan Information Network
    • A.M. Fischer (2003). The rich get richer, and the poor? Rural poverty and inequality in Tibet - indications from recent official surveys. (Extern rapport). s.l.: Tibetan Information Network
    • A.M. Fischer (2003). Overview of the Tibetan population in the PRC from the 2000 census. (Extern rapport). s.l.: Tibetan Information Network

  • Contribution weekly / daily journal (5)

    • Scholarly Publication (2)

      • A.M. Fischer (2005, september 27). Illiteracy and education levels worsen in the TAR despite development drive. TibetInfoNet
      • A.M. Fischer (2005, februari 10). High TAR wages benefit the privileged. Tibet Information Network

    • Professional Publication (3)

      • A.M. Fischer (2009, juli 23). Why economic boom failed to prevent unrest in Xinjiang? Financial Times China
      • A.M. Fischer (2008, april 10). Hard lines help no one. The Guardian
      • A.M. Fischer (2005, januari 20). Tibetans lose ground in public sector employment in the TAR: Streamlining effectively discriminates against Tibetans. Tibet Information Network

  • Article in volume (2)

    • A.M. Fischer (2015). La grande transformation du Tibet : Les changements économiques et sociaux des trente dernières années. In M. Raison & K. Buffetrille (Eds.), Tibet 1980-2014: Compte rendu de la journée de conférences organisée au Sénat le 24 mai 2014. Paris: Sénat France
    • A.M. Fischer (2014). La grande transformation du Tibet : les changements économiques et sociaux des trente dernières années. In K. Buffetrille (Ed.), Tibet 1980-2014: Compte rendu de la journée de conférences organisée au Sénat le 24 mai 2014 (pp. 10-15). Paris: Sénat de France

  • Other output (12)

    • Scholarly Publication (8)

      • A.M. Fischer (2014). Aiding Social Protection: the political economy of externally financing social policy in developing countries. ERC Starting Grant 2014: Brussels (2015, mei 1 - 2020, mei 1).
      • A.M. Fischer (2014). The Great Transformation and the Redistributive Imperative for Development. 13th International Karl Polanyi Conference 'The Enduring Legacy of Karl Polanyi': Montreal, Canada (2014, november 6 - 2014, november 8).
      • A.M. Fischer (2014). Inequality, Vulnerability, and the Relative Condition of Modern Poverty. 14th EADI General Conference 'Responsible Development in a Polycentric World': Bonn (2014, juni 23 - 2014, juni 26). [go to publisher's site]
      • A.M. Fischer (2012). Reviving the capital controversies for poverty studies: post-Keynesian perspectives and the fallacy of productivity reductionism. Heterodox Economics Perspectives on Poverty: City University London, London, UK (2012, november 16).
      • A.M. Fischer (2012). The changing grounds of aid effectiveness: implications of OECD aid as a financial flow amidst global imbalances. OECD/LSE Seminar: 'The OECD Development Assistance Committee: Looking towards the future. What can we learn from the past?': London School of Economics, London, UK (2012, december 6).
      • A.M. Fischer (2009). The Perils of Paradigm Maintenance in the Face of Crisis. UNRISD conference on the “Social and Political Dimensions of the Global Crisis: Implications for Developing Countries": Geneva (2009, november 12 - 2009, november 13).
      • A.M. Fischer (2008). Looking to the Pioneers for a Path through the Meta-Narratives: structuralist insights for current debates on aid and development" (Paper presented at Conference on Development 's Invisible Hands held at UK Development Studies Association, London, 8 November 2008). Conference on Development's Invisible Hands, UK Development Studies Association London: (2008, november 8).
      • A.M. Fischer (2007). A theory of polarisation,exclusion and conflict within disempowered development: the case of contemporary Tibet in China. Doctoral thesis: London.

    • Professional Publication (4)

      • A.M. Fischer (2011). The demographic imperative of scaling up social protection. Social protection for social justice, Centre for Social Protection, Institute Development Studies: Brighton (2011, april 13 - 2011, april 15).
      • A.M. Fischer (2011). The implications of aid as a financial flow amidst global imbalances. Conference: Rethinking development in an age of scarcity and uncertainty, York University: York (2011, september 19 - 2011, september 22).
      • A.M. Fischer (2011). The great transformation of Tibet and Xinjiang. Conference: Challenging the harmonious society: Tibetans and Uyghurs in socialist China, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies: Copenhagen (2011, mei 20 - 2011, mei 21).
      • A.M. Fischer (2011). Demographic perspectives on agrarian transformations and 'surplus populations': supply-side banalities versus redistributive imperatives. Agrarian transformation and surplus population in the global South: revisting agraian questions and labour, closed workshop IDAS-LDPI: The Hague (2011, mei 2).

  • Award (1)

    • A.M. Fischer (2018). International Studies in Poverty Prize, awarded by Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) and Zed Books. Book Award: . Wetenschappelijk.

  • Internet article (12)

    • Scholarly Publication (10)

      • A.M. Fischer (2020). Haemorrhaging Zambia: Prequel to the Current Debt Crisis. (blog). Developing Economics. (available: 24 Nov 2020).
      • A.M. Fischer (2020). Debt, Dependence and Development in Historical Perspective. (podcast). Crash Course. (available: 8 Oct 2020).
      • E.L. Dadap-Cantal, A.M. Fischer & C.G. Ramos (2020). Ephemeral universalism in the social protection response to the COVID-19 lockdown in the Philippines. (blog). ISS Blog on Global Development and Social Justice. (available: 26 Jun 2020).
      • A.L. Badillo Salgado & A.M. Fischer (2020). Ecuador, COVID-19 and the IMF: how austerity exacerbated the crisis. (blog). The ISS Blog on Global Development and Social Justice. (available: 9 Apr 2020).
      • A.M. Fischer (2020). Haemorrhaging Zambia: Underlying sources of the current sovereign debt crisis. (blog). ISS blog. (available: 25 Nov 2020).
      • K. Roelen & A.M. Fischer (2020). Poverty (measurement) is political – Andrew Fischer. (podcast). Poverty Unpacked. (available: 7 May 2020).
      • K.L. Talla Cornejo & A.M. Fischer (2020). How COVID-19 is tragically exposing systemic vulnerabilities in Peru. (blog). ISS Blog on Global Development and Social Justice. (available: 25 Aug 2020).
      • A.M. Fischer (2015). 胡温政府时期西藏自治区的财政政策: 2008年后新激增的国家补助的效应. (nieuwsbrief). Washington D. C.: Tibet Governance Project, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. (available: 3 Mar 2015). [go to publisher's site]
      • A.M. Fischer (2015). Fiscal Policy in the Tibet Autonomous Region under the Hu-Wen Administration: Effects of New Surge in State Subsidies after 2008. (nieuwsbrief). Washington D. C.: Tibet Governance Project, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. (available: 3 Mar 2015). [go to publisher's site]
      • A.M. Fischer (2014). Social Values, Employment and Human Development: beyond economic utilitarianism. (blog). New York: HDIalogue, Human Development Reports Office, UNDP. (available: 20 May 2014).

    • Professional Publication (1)

      • S. Kidd & A.M. Fischer (2020). Universal social security and the social contract. (podcast). Development Pathways. (available: 15 Dec 2020).

    • Semiscientific Publication (1)

      • A.M. Fischer (2015). Tibet’s economic growth an accounting illusion? (blog). EastAsiaForum. (available: 9 Jul 2015).

• Ancillary activities (4)

  DSA UK/Ireland and OUP

  Start date approval

  Jan/2019

  End date approval

  Jan/2022

  Place

  ROTTERDAM

  Description

  Founding Editor of OUP book series

  Elliot School of International Affairs

  Start date approval

  Jan/2019

  End date approval

  Jan/2022

  Place

  WASHINGTON DC

  Description

  Research Associate

  Journal of China in Comparative Perspective

  Start date approval

  Jan/2019

  End date approval

  Jan/2022

  Place

  LONDON

  Description

  Executive Editor

  Journal of International Development

  Start date approval

  Jan/2019

  End date approval

  Jan/2022

  Place

  LONDON

  Description

  Editorial Board Member

• Teaching (8)

  Global Poverty, Local Solutions

  Title

  Global Poverty, Local Solutions

  Year

  2020

  One-day workshop

  Title

  One-day workshop

  Year

  2020

  Board of Examiners

  Title

  Board of Examiners

  Year

  2020

  General Information

  Title

  General Information

  Year

  2020

  4202 Poverty and Inequality

  Title

  4202 Poverty and Inequality

  Year

  2020

  3105 Research Paper Preparation

  Title

  3105 Research Paper Preparation

  Year

  2020

  5401 Research Paper

  Title

  5401 Research Paper

  Year

  2020

  Major SPD

  Title

  Major SPD

  Year

  2020

• Editorial positions (3)

  Development and Change

  Role

  Editor

  Start date approval

  Jul/2016

  Journal of International Development

  Role

  Editorial Board

  Start date approval

  Jun/2012

  Oxford University Press

  Additional Information

  Book series of the UK and Ireland Development Studies Association, on Critical Frontiers of International Development Studies, published by Oxford University Press

  Role

  Founding Editor

  Start date approval

  Jun/2015

• Present position

  Associate Professor

  University

  Erasmus University Rotterdam

  School

  International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)

  Department

  Academic staff unit

  Telephone

  0704260599

• Other positions (3)

  Journal of China in Comparative Perspective

  Role

  Executive Editor

  Start date approval

  Sep/2008

  Tibet Governance Project, Elliot School of International Affaires, George Washington University, Washington DC, US

  Additional Information

  http://tibetgovernanceproject.org

  Role

  Research Associate

  Start date approval

  Feb/2015

  Centre for Development Research and Practice, SOAS, U of London

  Additional Information

  https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff68844.php

  Role

  Research Partner

  Start date approval

  Jan/2010