Position in ISS:	Senior Lecturer in Population and Social Policy
Department(s):	ISS Faculty Staff Group 4: Rural Development, Environment and Population
Other positions:	At ISS: Convenor of Poverty Specialisation (2010-11) Co-Course Leader, General Course (2010-11) Council Member, Institute Council (2010-) Outside ISS: Council Member, UK Development Studies Association Senior Research Fellow, CERES Executive Editor, Journal of China in Comparative Perspective

Andrew Fischer teaches on issues of population, poverty and social policy in Staff Group IV of ISS (Rural Development, Environment and Population) and on development economics in the ISS general course and in the International Political Economy o...

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Awarded Best Paper of the Development Studies Association annual conference in London on 8 November 2008, by the Journal of International Development and Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. The paper is entitled 'Looking to the Pioneers for a Path through the Meta-Narratives: structuralist insights for current debates on aid and development' (see below for published version; 'Putting Aid in its Place,' JID 2009).

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.

'The Great China Currency Debate: for workers or speculators?' G24 Policy Brief no.56, 26 May 2010.

'The Population Question and Development: the need for a debate in the Netherlands', Final Report on the 2009 SID-WPF-ISS lecture series, Society for International Development (Netherlands Chapter), April 2010.

'A Land Called Tibet' (chapter about the role of Tibet in nationalist ideologies in China and comparison with similar ideological dilemmas with nation-building in India), in Ira Pande (ed.), IndiaChina: Neighbours Strangers. Harper Collins India (for India International Centre Quarterly 36(3/4), Spring 2010), pp.234-251.

'Is China Turning Latin? China’s balancing act between power and dependence on the wave of global imbalances', ISS Working Paper No. 496, February 2010.

'Aid as Power in an Unequal World', The Broker, blog posted on 15 February 2010.

'Towards Genuine Universalism within Contemporary Development Policy', IDS Bulletin 41(1), Special Issue on MDGs and Beyond, January 2010: 36-44.

• Abbreviated version published in Poverty in Focus, no.19, January 2010, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, Poverty Practice, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP, pp.8-9.

2009

‘The Perils of Paradigm Maintenance in the Face of Crisis’, paper presented at UNRISD conference on the 'Social and Political Dimensions of the Global Crisis: Implications for Developing Countries,' 12–13 November 2009, Geneva, revised 26 November 2009.

'The Political Economy of Boomerang Aid in China's Tibet,' China Perspectives 2009(3): 38-55.

‘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.

'Educating for Exclusion in Western China: structural and institutional dimensions of conflict in the Tibetan areas of Qinghai and Tibet,' CRISE Working Paper no. 69, Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, Oxford University, July 2009.

'Towards Genuine Universalism within Contemporary Development Policy.' Background paper for 'High Level Policy Forum - After 2015: Promoting Pro-poor Policy after the MDGs', organised jointly by EADI, DFID, Actionaid, IDS, DSA and The Broker, 23 June 2009, Brussels. Also see two-part blog on the forum written for The Broker: 'Reflections after Brussels' and 'Reclaiming the MDG agenda'.

Guest editor for special issue of DevISSues, Focus on China: A New Development Model or Old Lessons Reconfirmed? 11(1), May 2009.

review of Geoff Childs, Tibetan Transitions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Fertility, Family Planning, and Demographic Change (Leiden: Brill, 2008), in Population and Development Review 35(1), March 2009, pp. 202-204.

2008

'"Population Invasion" versus Urban Exclusion in the Tibetan Areas of Western China,' Population and Development Review, 34, no. 4, December 2008: 631-662.

'Subsistence and Rural Livelihood Strategies in Tibet under Rapid Economic and Social Transition', Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies 4 (December 2008): special issue guest edited by Ken Bauer, Geoff Childs, Andrew Fischer and Daniel Winkler, 'In the Shadow of the Leaping Dragon: Demography, Development, and the Environment in Tibetan Areas'.

‘Resolving the Theoretical Ambiguities of Social Exclusion with reference to Polarisation and Conflict’, DESTIN Working Paper No.90, January. See summary posted on the document library of the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) of the UK Department for International Development (DFID).

‘Economic Development’ and ‘Population’; two chapters in Blondeau, Anne-Marie, et Katia Buffetrille, eds., Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's One-Hundred Questions. Berkeley: University of California Press.

‘The Muslim Cook, the Tibetan Client, his Lama and their Boycott: Modern religious discourses of anti-Muslim economic activism in Amdo’, in Huber, Toni, and Fernanda Pirie, eds., Conflict and social order in Tibet and Inner Asia. Leiden: Brill.

'Tibet,' chapter in Sara Daniel (ed.), Guerres D'aujourd'hui: Pourquoi ces conflits? Peut-on les resoudre? Paris: Editions De La Villa, pp. 407-453.

2007

'A Theory of Polarisation, Exclusion and Conflict within Disempowered Development: the case of contemporary Tibet in China', PhD thesis, London School of Economics.

‘Perversities of Extreme Dependence and Unequal Growth in the TAR’, Tibet Watch Special Report, August 2007.

2006

'Subsistence Capacity: the commodification of rural labour re-examined through the case of Tibet', London: Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics, DESTIN Working Paper No. 06-75, August 2006.

2005

'Close Encounters of an Inner Asian Kind: Tibetan-Muslim co-existence and conflict past and present', London: Crisis States Programme, London School of Economics, Crisis States Working Paper No 68, September 2005

State Growth and Social Exclusion in Tibet: Challenges of Recent Growth. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press. Also see in Google Books.See summary in the document library of the DfID Governance and Social Development Resource Centre.

2004

'Urban Fault Lines in Shangri-La: Population and economic foundations of interethnic conflict in the Tibetan areas of Western China', London: Crisis States Programme, London School of Economics, Crisis States Working Paper No.42, June 2004.

Economic Dimensions of Autonomy and Right to Development in Tibet. Montréal: International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development.

2002

2002, Poverty by Design: The Economics of Discrimination in Tibet. Montréal: Canada Tibet Committee. ISBN 0-9731527-0-2.

Recent non-academic press:

2009, 'Why Economic Boom failed to prevent unrest in Xinjiang?', comment on recent unrest in Xinjiang and Tibet on FTChinese.com, the Chinese web edition of the FT published in China. See English version or Chinese version.

'Back to Reality on Tibet', Alternatives International Journal, 1(1), 7 May 2008.

'Hard lines help no one', Comment in The Guardian, 10 April 2008.

'Reaping Tibet's Whirlwind', Far Eastern Economic Review, March 2008.

In the media:

Interviewed by Robin Lustig on the News Hour programme of BBC World Service Radio on 14 April 2010 about the earthquake that took place in the morning of the same day in Yushu Prefecture, a Tibetan area of Western China where Andrew has done fieldwork.

Two-part interview by Newsclick: '"Resilience", "Inequality" and Social Policy Reforms in China', and; 'Chinese "Oversavings", Domestic Wages and Healthcare Issues', Newsclick Production, 9 February 2010.

Interviewed by Associated Press on the situation in Tibet and cited in article by David Wivell, 'Heavy security is the new normal in China's Tibet', 7 March 2010. Article published by numerous new outlets including: New York Times; MSNBC; ABC News; The Miami Herald; The San Francisco Chronicle; and CBS news

Interviewed and cited by The Financial Times in article on Chinese policies in Tibet by Geoff Dyer, 17 February 2010: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f8e37a52-1beb-11df-a5e1-00144feab49a,dwp_uuid=9c33700c-4c86-11da-89df-0000779e2340.html

Interviewed and cited in an article on Tibetan migrants in Eastern China in the Asia Times, 23 January 2010: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/LA23Ad01.html

Interview in article by Aernout Bouwman-Sie, 'Tibetanen zijn de Aboriginals van China', NRC Handelsblad, 27 August 2008.

Interview on BBC World Service, May 2008.

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