Development, Social Policy, Developing Countries, Environment and population, Political Economy of Resources, Social exclusions and Poverty
Andrew M. Fischer is Associate Professor of Social Policy and Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of the Erasmus University – Rotterdam, and laureate of the European Research Council Starting Grant, which he won in the 2014 round. He is also the founding editor of a new book series recently signed with Oxford University Press entitled Critical Frontiers of International Development Studies. Dr. Fischer’s research and teaching are located at the intersections of development studies and social policy. His current ERC Starting Grant is on the political economy of externally financing social policy in developing countries, with a focus on the emerging social protection agenda among donors. The objective of the research is to deepen our understanding of the systemic political and economic challenges facing global redistribution towards poorer countries. His earlier work on the impact of Chinese regional development policies in the Tibetan areas of Western China (encompassing five provinces) is also well known for its critical engagement with concepts of social exclusion and marginalization within a context of rapid growth and socioeconomic transformation, viewed in particular through the interaction of changing education and employment systems. At ISS, Dr. Fischer led the establishment of the MA major in Social Policy for Development, which he convened from 2012 to 2014. He also convened the specialization in Poverty Studies and Policy Analysis from 2009 to 2012 and he is part of the Management Team of the Political Economy of Resources, Environment and Population research programme, representing the sub-theme on Critical Research in Social Policy. He has worked with and advised various multilateral agencies and NGOs, including UNRISD, UNW, UNDP, UNICEF, UNECOSOC, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch. More generally, he has over 25 years of experience working in or on developing countries, including in China, South Asia and Central America. He spent seven years living and working on education initiatives with refugees in South Asia prior to his PhD at the London School of Economics.
State Growth and Social Exclusion in Tibet: Challenges of Recent Economic Growth (NISA Reports, 47), Andrew M. Fischer, 2005
Volume number: 51 This is a guest editorship of a special issue, titled: “Debate: Social Policy under the Global Shadow of Right? wing Populism”, Development and Change (Journal), 2020
Book series of the UK and Ireland Development Studies Association, on Critical Frontiers of International Development Studies, published by Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press (Publisher), 15 June 2015
Volume number: 2011 This Journal of International Development Virtual Issue has been designed to coincide with the EADI-DSA conference in September 2011 on the theme of “Rethinking Development in an Age of Scarcity and Uncertainty: New Values, Voices and Alliances for Increased Resilience”, Journal of International Development (Journal), 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, 2011Online ISSN JID virtual issues: 1099-1328 This Journal of International Development (JID) Virtual Issue has been designed to coincide with the EADI-DSA conference in September 2011 on the theme of “Rethinking Development in an Age of Scarcity and Uncertainty: New Values, Voices and Alliances for Increased Resilience”., Journal of International Development (Journal), 2011
Volume number: 23 Special Issue: DSA 2010: Development Paths: Values, Ethics and Morality, Journal of International Development (Journal), 2011
Volume number: 30 Development in Tibet: land, labor and social policy in a context of rapid transition Expected, Himalaya. The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (Journal), Date of Publication: October 2011
Volume number: 23 This Journal of International Development Virtual Issue has been designed to coincide with the DSA conference in November 2010. issn online 1099-1328, Journal of International Development (Journal), 2010
