Andrew Fischer
@andrewmfischer.bsky.social
Prof at Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Chair of Development and Change @devandchg.bsky.social, Canuck in Europe.
Working on development economics, demography & social policy, Tibet & western China. Wrote Poverty as Ideology (2018) & other stuff.
Working on development economics, demography & social policy, Tibet & western China. Wrote Poverty as Ideology (2018) & other stuff.
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FORUM 2024: Development and Change: Vol 55, No 4
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Ex-bird algorithms didn't seem to like me, so I'm reposting here:
@devandchg.bsky.social 2024 forum issue on the political economy of global #reparations is out, with an amazing line up of leading thinkers on this issue. A must read, as antidote to politics going in the opposite direction.
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@devandchg.bsky.social 2024 forum issue on the political economy of global #reparations is out, with an amazing line up of leading thinkers on this issue. A must read, as antidote to politics going in the opposite direction.
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Registration is now open for Daniela Gabor's lecture:
www.iss.nl/en/events/seville-process-developmentalism-after-american-hegemony-2026-01-22
@danielagabor.bsky.social @powelljr.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @andrewmfischer.bsky.social @marsel.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social
www.iss.nl/en/events/seville-process-developmentalism-after-american-hegemony-2026-01-22
@danielagabor.bsky.social @powelljr.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @andrewmfischer.bsky.social @marsel.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social
The Seville Process: Developmentalism after American hegemony
A lecture by Professor Daniela Gabor, hosted by the journal Development and Change
www.iss.nl
January 9, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Registration is now open for Daniela Gabor's lecture:
www.iss.nl/en/events/seville-process-developmentalism-after-american-hegemony-2026-01-22
@danielagabor.bsky.social @powelljr.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @andrewmfischer.bsky.social @marsel.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social
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Stellar line up in our latest forum issue of @devandchg.bsky.social just released (although some articles were already on early view).
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1st, lead focus article by @rafeefz.bsky.social on development as erasure in #Palestine & #genocide in #Gaza
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1st, lead focus article by @rafeefz.bsky.social on development as erasure in #Palestine & #genocide in #Gaza
FORUM 2025: Development and Change: Vol 56, No 4-5
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December 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Stellar line up in our latest forum issue of @devandchg.bsky.social just released (although some articles were already on early view).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14677660...
1st, lead focus article by @rafeefz.bsky.social on development as erasure in #Palestine & #genocide in #Gaza
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14677660...
1st, lead focus article by @rafeefz.bsky.social on development as erasure in #Palestine & #genocide in #Gaza
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Why is Palestine a defining fault line of 21st‑century politics? Resisting Erasure places Israeli settler‑colonialism within imperialism, race, and fossil capitalism—not just humanitarian / legal narratives. Officially out & available in paperback & ebook www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Resisting Erasure
Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...
www.versobooks.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Why is Palestine a defining fault line of 21st‑century politics? Resisting Erasure places Israeli settler‑colonialism within imperialism, race, and fossil capitalism—not just humanitarian / legal narratives. Officially out & available in paperback & ebook www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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For those asking what Palestine reveals about the world - and what it demands of us - this book is one small intervention in a much larger fight.
We hope you’ll read it, share it, and organise with it. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
We hope you’ll read it, share it, and organise with it. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Resisting Erasure
Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...
www.versobooks.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
For those asking what Palestine reveals about the world - and what it demands of us - this book is one small intervention in a much larger fight.
We hope you’ll read it, share it, and organise with it. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
We hope you’ll read it, share it, and organise with it. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
Policy based evidence making.
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Policy based evidence making.
Given that the late Thandika Mkandawire was a massive inspiration for me, I am incredibly honoured to have been invited to give this memorial lecture and, now as the day approaches, also increasingly nervous about it.
tinyurl.com/Thandika-2025
tinyurl.com/Thandika-2025
September 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Given that the late Thandika Mkandawire was a massive inspiration for me, I am incredibly honoured to have been invited to give this memorial lecture and, now as the day approaches, also increasingly nervous about it.
tinyurl.com/Thandika-2025
tinyurl.com/Thandika-2025
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This looks smashing
Epic article on Palestine by @rafeefz.bsky.social just published by @devandchg.bsky.social based on her keynote at the recent AHE conference.
"Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’"
A must read!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’"
A must read!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This looks smashing
Epic article on Palestine by @rafeefz.bsky.social just published by @devandchg.bsky.social based on her keynote at the recent AHE conference.
"Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’"
A must read!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’"
A must read!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Epic article on Palestine by @rafeefz.bsky.social just published by @devandchg.bsky.social based on her keynote at the recent AHE conference.
"Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’"
A must read!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’"
A must read!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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"Progressives" and "leftists": You must understand that we have urgent problems and the most important way to address them urgently is to saddle healthy young, productive women with 30 years of intensive parenting, and spend a million dollars each, so their kids can make a difference in the future!
August 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"Progressives" and "leftists": You must understand that we have urgent problems and the most important way to address them urgently is to saddle healthy young, productive women with 30 years of intensive parenting, and spend a million dollars each, so their kids can make a difference in the future!
Superb article by Adam Hanieh on renewables and fossil fuel capitalism in the Gulf states just out in @devandchg.bsky.social, as part of our forthcoming forum issue (the image shows a different issue).
doi.org/10.1111/dech...
doi.org/10.1111/dech...
Greening the Gulf? Renewables, Fossil Capitalism and the ‘East–East’ Axis of World Energy
This article examines the place of the Gulf Cooperation Council states in the global energy transition, with a focus on the recent and rapid expansion of renewable energy in the region. It argues tha...
doi.org
August 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Superb article by Adam Hanieh on renewables and fossil fuel capitalism in the Gulf states just out in @devandchg.bsky.social, as part of our forthcoming forum issue (the image shows a different issue).
doi.org/10.1111/dech...
doi.org/10.1111/dech...
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In case you missed this piece on Friday (or want to be reminded that humanity is not facing imminent demise), here's your chance to learn why demographers aren't panicking about low birth rates.
Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions theconversation.com/fears-that-f...
Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.
theconversation.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
In case you missed this piece on Friday (or want to be reminded that humanity is not facing imminent demise), here's your chance to learn why demographers aren't panicking about low birth rates.
I think Eric doesn’t realise that populations will continue growing for most of our lifetime even after fertility falls below replacement.
And as long as there is massive room for increasing productive and decently paid employment in the Global South, fertility concerns are not relevant.
And as long as there is massive room for increasing productive and decently paid employment in the Global South, fertility concerns are not relevant.
This just isn't true. Far-right demographic panic definitely drives some natalist advocacy. But global fertility is on the cusp of falling below replacement.
Absent major gains in automation, this is going to be a major source of economic strain during our lifetimes.
Absent major gains in automation, this is going to be a major source of economic strain during our lifetimes.
June 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I think Eric doesn’t realise that populations will continue growing for most of our lifetime even after fertility falls below replacement.
And as long as there is massive room for increasing productive and decently paid employment in the Global South, fertility concerns are not relevant.
And as long as there is massive room for increasing productive and decently paid employment in the Global South, fertility concerns are not relevant.
Wonderful to have my research featured in the lead editorial of @theguardian.com, but only because the information is so important to share, about massive transfers of wealth out of Zambia.
They did an amazing job packaging it into 560 words in a way I could never.
@stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social
They did an amazing job packaging it into 560 words in a way I could never.
@stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social
The Guardian view on Zambia’s Trumpian predicament: US aid cuts are dwarfed by a far bigger heist | Editorial
Editorial: As the US decries corruption, a paper suggests the real scandal is multinationals legally extracting billions from Africa’s resource-rich nation
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Wonderful to have my research featured in the lead editorial of @theguardian.com, but only because the information is so important to share, about massive transfers of wealth out of Zambia.
They did an amazing job packaging it into 560 words in a way I could never.
@stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social
They did an amazing job packaging it into 560 words in a way I could never.
@stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social
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Andrew Fischer: We have detected massive outflows of private wealth over the past fifteen years, hidden away on an obscure part of Zambia's financial account. The outflows are most likely related to the large mining companies... developingeconomics.org/2020/11/24/h...
Haemorrhaging Zambia: Prequel to the Current Debt Crisis
Following a stand-off with commercial creditors and protracted but unresolved negotiations with the IMF, Zambia defaulted on its external sovereign debt on 13 November this year. Whi…
developingeconomics.org
June 5, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Andrew Fischer: We have detected massive outflows of private wealth over the past fifteen years, hidden away on an obscure part of Zambia's financial account. The outflows are most likely related to the large mining companies... developingeconomics.org/2020/11/24/h...
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These people need to be told to leave if they don’t like it in First Nations territories.
May 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
These people need to be told to leave if they don’t like it in First Nations territories.
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Re-sharing this piece b/c one of the problems with pronatalism is that it sees women's reproductive labor as the only possible solution to issues related to population size and structure.
Too many people? Too few people? The intervention point is always women's reproductive labor.
Too many people? Too few people? The intervention point is always women's reproductive labor.
"I am curious to know why an economic dilemma, the kind you might expect to be tackled by corporations or governments or NGOs, is instead presented as a dilemma to be solved by uteruses." wapo.st/4cEcfeg
Perspective | Don’t pin the birth rate problem on the birth givers
A lot of women don’t want 2.1 kids. We need an economic model in which that’s okay.
wapo.st
May 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Re-sharing this piece b/c one of the problems with pronatalism is that it sees women's reproductive labor as the only possible solution to issues related to population size and structure.
Too many people? Too few people? The intervention point is always women's reproductive labor.
Too many people? Too few people? The intervention point is always women's reproductive labor.
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"I am curious to know why an economic dilemma, the kind you might expect to be tackled by corporations or governments or NGOs, is instead presented as a dilemma to be solved by uteruses." wapo.st/4cEcfeg
Perspective | Don’t pin the birth rate problem on the birth givers
A lot of women don’t want 2.1 kids. We need an economic model in which that’s okay.
wapo.st
June 27, 2024 at 1:56 PM
"I am curious to know why an economic dilemma, the kind you might expect to be tackled by corporations or governments or NGOs, is instead presented as a dilemma to be solved by uteruses." wapo.st/4cEcfeg
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On population collapse, @drjenndowd.bsky.social: "social engineering designed to change this unknown distant future is bound to fail, at potentially high human cost." jenndowd.substack.com/p/is-our-pop...
Is our population collapsing?
Throwing some cold water on "population panic"
jenndowd.substack.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
On population collapse, @drjenndowd.bsky.social: "social engineering designed to change this unknown distant future is bound to fail, at potentially high human cost." jenndowd.substack.com/p/is-our-pop...
From @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook today, quoting Gavekal.
Did they actually to look at EM exchange rates when writing this?
MEX peso & BRA real both depreciated to USD in the last week. Slight appreciation of rand or rupiah, but nothing exciting & after sharp depreciation in case of rand.
Did they actually to look at EM exchange rates when writing this?
MEX peso & BRA real both depreciated to USD in the last week. Slight appreciation of rand or rupiah, but nothing exciting & after sharp depreciation in case of rand.
May 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
From @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook today, quoting Gavekal.
Did they actually to look at EM exchange rates when writing this?
MEX peso & BRA real both depreciated to USD in the last week. Slight appreciation of rand or rupiah, but nothing exciting & after sharp depreciation in case of rand.
Did they actually to look at EM exchange rates when writing this?
MEX peso & BRA real both depreciated to USD in the last week. Slight appreciation of rand or rupiah, but nothing exciting & after sharp depreciation in case of rand.
The sad side of an otherwise good outcome (keeping Cons out). They got my vote but it was unfortunately in a safe liberal seat (this time), Laurier-Ste-Marie.
Good example: NDP candidate - the awesome Nima Machouf - was leading in polls from September to Trump, but then liberals surged.
Good example: NDP candidate - the awesome Nima Machouf - was leading in polls from September to Trump, but then liberals surged.
An emotional Singh steps down with NDP set to lose party status | CBC News
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh struggled to keep his emotions in check late Monday night as he took the stage at his campaign headquarters in Burnaby, B.C., to deliver the bad news: his fight is over.
www.cbc.ca
April 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The sad side of an otherwise good outcome (keeping Cons out). They got my vote but it was unfortunately in a safe liberal seat (this time), Laurier-Ste-Marie.
Good example: NDP candidate - the awesome Nima Machouf - was leading in polls from September to Trump, but then liberals surged.
Good example: NDP candidate - the awesome Nima Machouf - was leading in polls from September to Trump, but then liberals surged.
So, at this point the liberals can govern with the NDP, which for me is always the ideal outcome of a Canadian election given the NDP can never win nationally.
April 29, 2025 at 6:16 AM
So, at this point the liberals can govern with the NDP, which for me is always the ideal outcome of a Canadian election given the NDP can never win nationally.
Trump’s kiss of death.
April 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Trump’s kiss of death.