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Material Cultures of Financialisation (2018)
Book
Bayliss, K., Fine, B., & Robertson, M. (Eds.). (2018). Material Cultures of Financialisation. Routledge

This collection offers pathbreaking framing of the material culture of financialisation. It begins with a tight definition of financialisation in order to distinguish the phenomenon of financialisation from its effects and from the looser association... Read More about Material Cultures of Financialisation.

A Cup Half Full: The World Bank's Assessment of Water Privatisation (2011)
Book Chapter
Bayliss, K. (2011). A Cup Half Full: The World Bank's Assessment of Water Privatisation. In K. Bayliss, B. Fine, & E. Van Waeyenberge (Eds.), The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research. Pluto Press

This chapter considers the evidence in support of water privatisation and the relationship between this and advocacy and policy. The chapter discusses empirical research in this sector in terms of two phases 13 the first in the early 2000s when priv... Read More about A Cup Half Full: The World Bank's Assessment of Water Privatisation.

The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research (2011)
Book
Bayliss, K., Fine, B., & Van Waeyenberge, E. (Eds.). (2011). The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research. Pluto Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183gzdj

Any student, academic or practitioner wanting to succeed in development studies, radical or mainstream, must understand the World Bank's role and the evolution of its thinking and activities. The Political Economy of Development provides tools for ga... Read More about The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research.

Whither World Bank Research? (2011)
Book Chapter
Fine, B., Van Waeyenberge, E., & Bayliss, K. (2011). Whither World Bank Research?. In K. Bayliss, E. Van Waeyenberge, & B. Fine (Eds.), The political economy of development: the World Bank, neoliberalism and development research. Pluto

The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research (2011)
Book Chapter
Van Waeyenberge, E., Fine, B., & Bayliss, K. (2011). The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research. In K. Bayliss, E. Van Waeyenberge, & B. Fine (Eds.), The political economy of development: the World Bank, neoliberalism and development research. Pluto

Privatization and Alternative Public Sector Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: Delivering on Electricity and Water (2007)
Book
Bayliss, K., & Fine, B. (Eds.). (2007). Privatization and Alternative Public Sector Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: Delivering on Electricity and Water. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286412

This book documents the growth in privatization in the delivery of water and electricity in SSA over the 1990s and 2000s, showing how numerous governments have gone to considerable lengths in an effort to attract investors into these sectors. The boo... Read More about Privatization and Alternative Public Sector Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: Delivering on Electricity and Water.