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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 19/08/2026

Tibet's 'new economy', as shown to a state-organised press tour: a vineyard, a beekeeper, a weaving co-op. Meanwhile central government transfers ran to ¥69,000/resident in '24. One expert in the piece @andrewmfischer.bsky.social: niche, uncompetitive, subsidised. www.thinkchina.sg/economy/big-...

thinkchina.sg

[Big read] Can Tibet build an economy beyond state support?

High-altitude wine, beekeeping and conservation drones — these are just some of the businesses in Tibet generating employment and income. Lianhe Zaobao correspondent Liu Liu finds out more about the p...

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

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

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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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 🧵

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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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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

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).

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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

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:

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Mirages of External Finance in Social Protection: the Politics of Aid Viewed Through the Monetary Transfer Dilemma | Article | Politics and Governance

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 10/03/2026

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...

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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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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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/...

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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

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

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FORUM 2025: Development and Change: Vol 56, No 4-5

Click on the title to browse this issue

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rafeefz.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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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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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rafeefz.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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...

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Resisting Erasure

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

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🧵

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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This looks smashing

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 29/08/2025

"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!

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

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.

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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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.

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Randeep Ramesh @stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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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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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Terrill Tailfeathers @terrilltf.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

These people need to be told to leave if they don’t like it in First Nations territories.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

"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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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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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 21/05/2025

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...

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Is our population collapsing?

Throwing some cold water on "population panic"

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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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.

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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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.

cbc.ca

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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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Nice news to wake up to

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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Tooze discovers Canada, in time for our election. Not much to say beyond common knowledge that every Canadian learns in school. Useful to add: 1. areas north of pop densities are mostly sub-artic (could have made a similar map with Scandinavia) & 2. how much difference a border makes!

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Chartbook 378: The anxiety of influence: economic geography, Canada and the USA.

Eyes around the world are on Canada and the election to be held tomorrow, Monday 28th April.

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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

This article aged badly, unless of course the implication is that the US didn't have "successful performance in terms of economic growth, control of corruption, peace and political stability, and public goods provision." Definitely not the 2nd or 4th, I'd say. academic.oup.com/restud/artic...

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(Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support

Abstract. Using large-scale survey data covering more than 110 countries and exploiting within-country variation across cohorts and surveys, we show that i

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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Ma circonscription aux élections 🇨🇦 – Laurier-Ste-Marie – est libéral solide (mais aurait pu retourné NPD avant Trump). J'ai donc la possibilité de voter avec ma conscience sans risque que les Cons l'emporte, et la chance de voter pour l'incroyable Nima Machouf. Tout vote pour elle est bien utilisé.

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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

My riding in the 🇨🇦 election – Laurier-Ste-Marie – is a safe Lib seat (but could've gone NDP before Trump), so I have the lux to vote with my conscience given no risk of the Cons winning, & I've the great fortune to be able to vote for the amazing Nima Machouf. Any vote for her is a vote well used.

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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I’m still passively on X because, despite all my efforts to follow non-USians on Bluesky, my feed here remains overwhelmingly US-centric, whereas I get much more international and, ironically, left content on X. However, that being said…

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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

My guess is that it is, yet again, a case of presidential insider trading. In other words, high probability that his inner circle knew he was going to make the call and scooped up loads of deals just before.

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Tom Hancock @tomhancock.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The coal share of China primary energy consumption has fallen nearly ten percentage points since 2016 - but remains above 50%

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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Non-exhaust emissions make up ~60% of all vehicle-derived pollution particles (in the UK). Studies indicate that because EVs tend to be heavier, they can generate more non-exhaust dust than petrol or diesel vehicles. Zero-emission label is clearly not accurate. From here:

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Car brake dust can be more harmful than diesel exhaust – new study

Almost half of all copper in the air comes from brake wear.

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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This is actually very serious... Modi style destruction of statistical systems, and yet in the US, the whole world invested in the US or the consequences of its financial markets hangs onto these stats with intense sensitivity... www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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The War on Government Statistics Has Quietly Begun

What the elimination of an obscure advisory committee on economic data says about the administration’s commitment to relevance and accuracy.

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Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Don't underestimate those beavers...

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