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Healthcare financialisation in the Global South: Examining the role of the World Bank Group in promoting Public Private Partnerships in health in Africa (2025)
Journal Article
Chukwuma, J. N., Romero, M. J., & Van Waeyenberge, E. (online). Healthcare financialisation in the Global South: Examining the role of the World Bank Group in promoting Public Private Partnerships in health in Africa. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43253-024-00140-2

In recent development policy discourse, an ambition to deliver comprehensive healthcare to all citizens in the Global South via publicly financed provisioning systems has been replaced by calls for universal health coverage (UHC). At the heart of tod... Read More about Healthcare financialisation in the Global South: Examining the role of the World Bank Group in promoting Public Private Partnerships in health in Africa.

Examining the response of the IMF to crises in Low-Income Countries with a focus on Gender Budgeting: From the Global Financial Crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic (2024)
Thesis
Naughton, J. Examining the response of the IMF to crises in Low-Income Countries with a focus on Gender Budgeting: From the Global Financial Crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The thesis examines IMF concessional lending to Low-Income Countries (LICs) in response to crises ranging from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007-2009 to the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it engages with the IMF’s reinvigorated influence in... Read More about Examining the response of the IMF to crises in Low-Income Countries with a focus on Gender Budgeting: From the Global Financial Crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The financialization of infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa (2023)
Book Chapter
Van Waeyenberge, E., & Bayliss, K. (2023). The financialization of infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa. In E. Chiapello, A. Engels, & E. Gonçalves Gresse (Eds.), Financializations of Development: Global Games and Local Experiments. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003039679-7

Over the last decade, there has been a dramatic ramping up of advocacy for private finance, including through public-private partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure provision. The 2015 development finance agenda around the Sustainable Development Goals... Read More about The financialization of infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa.

Private equity and the regulation of financialised infrastructure: The case of Macquarie in Britain’s water and energy networks (2022)
Journal Article
Van Waeyenberge, E., Bayliss, K., & Bowles, B. (2023). Private equity and the regulation of financialised infrastructure: The case of Macquarie in Britain’s water and energy networks. New Political Economy, 28(2), 155-172. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2022.2084521

This paper explores the ways that private equity practices of financialised value extraction have migrated to the water sector in England. In line with the financialisation literature more broadly, we show how private equity investors have found inno... Read More about Private equity and the regulation of financialised infrastructure: The case of Macquarie in Britain’s water and energy networks.

London’s “Super Sewer”: A case study for the interdisciplinary possibilities of anthropologists and economists investigating infrastructure together (2021)
Journal Article
Van Waeyenberge, E., Bowles, B., & Bayliss, K. (2021). London’s “Super Sewer”: A case study for the interdisciplinary possibilities of anthropologists and economists investigating infrastructure together. Research in economic anthropology, 41, 5-30. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0190-128120210000041001

Despite the fact that recent anthropological interest in infrastructure has done much to illuminate the infrastructure asset as an assemblage of actors, technologies and ideas, an interdisciplinary approach is required to unpack how the infrastructur... Read More about London’s “Super Sewer”: A case study for the interdisciplinary possibilities of anthropologists and economists investigating infrastructure together.

Uneven outcomes from private infrastructure finance: evidence from two case studies (2021)
Journal Article
Van Waeyenberge, E., Bayliss, K., & Romero, M. J. (2021). Uneven outcomes from private infrastructure finance: evidence from two case studies. Development in Practice, 31(7), 934-945. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2021.1938513

The Sustainable Development Goals have intensified calls for private finance to address a so-called financing gap. This paper provides a critical assessment of the promotion of private finance in infrastructure, assessing two public–private partnersh... Read More about Uneven outcomes from private infrastructure finance: evidence from two case studies.

COVID-19 and Crises of Capitalism: Intensifying Inequalities and Global Responses (2021)
Journal Article
Stevano, S., Franz, T., Dafermos, Y., & Van Waeyenberge, E. (2021). COVID-19 and Crises of Capitalism: Intensifying Inequalities and Global Responses. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 42(1/2), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2021.1892606

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed multiple structural flaws of global capitalism. These have been reproduced through the intensification of inequalities and reinforced through policy responses that have failed to protect the most vulnerable from the... Read More about COVID-19 and Crises of Capitalism: Intensifying Inequalities and Global Responses.

The Political Economy of Social Policy in Africa: The Case of Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria (2021)
Thesis
Chukwuma, J. N. The Political Economy of Social Policy in Africa: The Case of Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This PhD study seeks to generate novel insights into how social policy, here in the context of health, has taken form in Nigeria. At the global level, healthcare has been an area of social policy which has received much attention, with African Govern... Read More about The Political Economy of Social Policy in Africa: The Case of Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria.

Beyond typologies. What is a Public Private Partnership? (2020)
Book Chapter
Van Waeyenberge, E., & Romero, M. J. (2020). Beyond typologies. What is a Public Private Partnership?. In J. Gideon, & E. Unterhalter (Eds.), Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429280450-3

This chapter seeks to engage with the issues related public private partnerships (PPPs) to explicitly by unpacking different typologies that have been used to categorise PPPs. It develops a criticism of these typologies, despite their benevolent and... Read More about Beyond typologies. What is a Public Private Partnership?.

Never let a pandemic go to waste: turbocharging the private sector for development at the World Bank (2020)
Journal Article
Dimakou, O., Romero, M. J., & Van Waeyenberge, E. (2021). Never let a pandemic go to waste: turbocharging the private sector for development at the World Bank. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 42(1/2), 221-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2020.1839394

This article scrutinises the first four months of the World Bank Group’s Covid-19 response and reveals a persistent prioritisation of private over public interests. The Group’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation, and its financ... Read More about Never let a pandemic go to waste: turbocharging the private sector for development at the World Bank.

The use of development funds for de-risking private investment: how effective is it in delivering development results? (2020)
Report
Van Waeyenberge, E., Dimakou, O., Bayliss, K., Laskaridis, C., Bonizzi, B., & Farwa, S. (2020). The use of development funds for de-risking private investment: how effective is it in delivering development results?

The use of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to mobilise private finance is increasingly seen as essential to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Numerous development agencies have set up diverse de-risking initiatives to attract priva... Read More about The use of development funds for de-risking private investment: how effective is it in delivering development results?.

How do countries develop? (2020)
Book Chapter
Van Waeyenberge, E., & Karwowski, E. (2020). How do countries develop?. In K. Deane, & E. Van Waeyenberge (Eds.), Recharting the History of Economic Thought. Macmillan Education

How do economies grow? (2020)
Book Chapter
Van Waeyenberge, E., & Bourayou, C. (2020). How do economies grow?. In K. Deane, & E. Van Waeyenberge (Eds.), Recharting the History of Economic Thought. Macmillan Education

Recharting the History of Economic Thought: Approaches to and student experiences of the introduction of pluralist teaching in an undergraduate economics curriculum (2019)
Journal Article
Deane, K., Van Waeyenberge, E., & Maxwell, R. (2019). Recharting the History of Economic Thought: Approaches to and student experiences of the introduction of pluralist teaching in an undergraduate economics curriculum. International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 10(2), 137-154. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJPEE.2019.101724

This paper outlines an innovative redesign of a course on the History of Economic Thought, which acted as a vehicle for exposing students to different theoretical traditions and engaging them in critical reflections on neoclassical economics. It also... Read More about Recharting the History of Economic Thought: Approaches to and student experiences of the introduction of pluralist teaching in an undergraduate economics curriculum.