This #juneteenth we should reflect on how recent enslavement was in American history. My great grandfather was born enslaved in Mississippi. Slavery and Emancipation are not ancient history at all. #Juneteenth #AmericanHistory
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.
News came out yesterday that Wiley acquired Emerald Publishing. Why? One big reason: Wiley is scaling AI revenue potential. It has already signed AI licensing agreements worth more than $100 million. In other words, it's selling (leasing) our research for training AI. A 🧵
Wiley Buys Emerald Publishing for $452 Million
The company said it sees the acquisition of the U.K.-based academic journal as not only deepening its presence in the journal market, but also increasing the amount of content it can license to AI com...
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Given the like from @erc.europa.eu, note the research contributing to this article was funded by their ERC Starting Grant, for the AIDSOCPRO research project (Aiding Social Protection: The Political Economy of Externally Financing Social Policy in Developing Countries, 2015–2021; grant #638647).
Andrew Fischer@andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 2mo agoA counterintuitive, for some controversial, argument: Aid that is considered to be funding #socialprotection is mostly not spent on social protection given that these expenditures, esp #cashtransfers (CTs), are almost entirely in domestic currency. A thread on my latest article. See:
A counterintuitive, for some controversial, argument: Aid that is considered to be funding #socialprotection is mostly not spent on social protection given that these expenditures, esp #cashtransfers (CTs), are almost entirely in domestic currency. A thread on my latest article. See:
Mirages of External Finance in Social Protection: the Politics of Aid Viewed Through the Monetary Transfer Dilemma | Article | Politics and Governance
Andrew M. Fischer
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A pattern that surprised me when I first heard about it (from @ruben.the100.ci): in high fertility contexts, a large share of kids is born to older mothers -- it takes time to have lots of kids! Not sure how I feel about "very late fertility (ages 35+)" 😭 www.niussp.org/fertility-an...
Fertility postponement is not a universal correlate of fertility decline - N-IUSSP
Worldwide, the path leading to delayed fertility is more complex than it may appear at first sight. Thomas Spoorenberg and Vegard Skirbekk offer a few keys to better interpret current ... Read more
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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/...
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
The Seville Process: Developmentalism after American hegemony
A lecture by Professor Daniela Gabor, hosted by the journal Development and Change
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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). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14677660... 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
Click on the title to browse this issue
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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...
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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...
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...
versobooks.com
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🧵
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
This looks smashing
Andrew Fischer@andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 11mo agoEpic 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/...
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/...
"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...
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...
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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.
The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · last yr.Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions theconversation.com/fears-that-f...
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.
Eric Levitz@ericlevitz.bsky.social · last yr.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.
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
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
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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…
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These people need to be told to leave if they don’t like it in First Nations territories.
Hazel B. 🇨🇦@hab3261.bsky.social · last yr.Imagine if 19 NDP MLAs were listed on a federal Liberal site pushing a radical policy. Now look at the UCP: 19 sitting MLAs appear on the Alberta Republican Party’s site endorsing Alberta independence. Where’s the outrage? it doesn’t even seem to bother the current UCP. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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.
Karen Benjamin Guzzo@karenguzzo.bsky.social · 2y ago"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
"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.
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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"
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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.
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.
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.
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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.