Development, Social Policy, Developing Countries, Environment and population, Political Economy of Resources, Social exclusions and Poverty
Andrew Martin Fischer is Professor of Inequality, Social Protection and Development 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; co-editor of the journal “Development and Change”; and founding editor of the Oxford University Press book series “Critical Frontiers of International Development Studies”. 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. Trained in demography and development economics, Fischer works extensively on poverty, inequality, social policy, and international development. He earned his Ph.D. in Development Studies from the London School of Economics (LSE) for his research on China’s regional development strategies in western China and their impact on ethnic minorities, principally Tibetans, but also Uyghurs and other minorities. He has written two books on this topic, the second being “The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China: A Study in the Economics of Marginalization” (Lexington Books, 2014), as well as numerous articles in leading journals such as Population and Development Review and China Quarterly. More generally, Fischer has been involved in the field of international development for over 30 years, with experience spanning Latin America, Africa and Asia. Prior to his Ph.D., he spent seven years living with Tibetan refugees in India, and he lived in Western China for two years during and after his Ph.D. Parallel to his ongoing research on western China, he won a prestigious “European Research Council” grant for work on the political economy of externally financing social policy in developing countries (Aiding Social Protection), which he led from 2015 to 2021. He is currently focusing on the role of redistribution in development at local, regional and global scales and its interaction with finance and production, while simultaneously maintaining his ongoing research on western China.
Banking on the edge: towards an open ended interpretation of informal finance in the Third World, thesis, 1994.
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
