All Outputs (10)

A Political Economy Perspective on Mauritian Water Services (2025)
Book Chapter
Peeroo, A., & Bayliss, K. (2025). A Political Economy Perspective on Mauritian Water Services. In C. Oya, R. Ramtohul, & V. Tandrayen-Ragoobur (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Mauritian Economy (384-411). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192856494.013.18

Mauritian drinking water services are in urgent need of investment. Yet, tariffs are among the lowest in the region, despite relatively high-income levels. This chapter offers a political economy analysis, drawing on the systems of provision (SoP) ap... Read More about A Political Economy Perspective on Mauritian Water Services.

Locating the World Bank: The Unmaking and Remaking of Development Economics in Its Shifting Vision (2024)
Book Chapter
Bayliss, K., & Fine, B. (2024). Locating the World Bank: The Unmaking and Remaking of Development Economics in Its Shifting Vision. In A. Vetterlein, & T. Schmidtke (Eds.), The Elgar Companion to the World Bank (38-50). Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802204780.00013

The trajectory of World Bank economics is traced including its relationship with development economics more generally. Initially, of little prominence but wedded to the old/classic development economics and the idea of modernization, it has moved thr... Read More about Locating the World Bank: The Unmaking and Remaking of Development Economics in Its Shifting Vision.

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.

Financialisation and the Future for SOEs (2020)
Book Chapter
Fine, B., & Bayliss, K. (2020). Financialisation and the Future for SOEs. In L. Bernier, M. Florio, & P. Bance (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of State-Owned Enterprises (354-371). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351042543-20

This chapter argues consideration of the future for SOEs must be set in the context of broader transitions in the role of the (neoliberalised) state. These include processes of privatisation and financialisation as well as broader shifts in economic... Read More about Financialisation and the Future for SOEs.

The Systems of Provision Approach to Understanding Consumption (2018)
Book Chapter
Fine, B., Bayliss, K., & Robertson, M. (2018). The Systems of Provision Approach to Understanding Consumption. In O. Kravets, P. Maclaran, S. Miles, & A. Venkatesh (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Consumer Culture (27-42). Sage

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.

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

Privatisation Theory and Practice: A Critical Analysis of Policy Evolution in the Development Context (2005)
Book Chapter
Bayliss, K. (2005). Privatisation Theory and Practice: A Critical Analysis of Policy Evolution in the Development Context. In K. S. Jomo, & B. Fine (Eds.), The New Development Economics: Post Washington Consensus Neoliberal Thinking. Zed Books

Privatisation and the Post-Washington Consensus: Between the Laboratory and the Real World (2001)
Book Chapter
Cramer, C., & Bayliss, K. (2001). Privatisation and the Post-Washington Consensus: Between the Laboratory and the Real World. In B. Fine, C. Lapavitsas, & J. Pincus (Eds.), Development policy in the 21st century: beyond the post-Washington consensus (52-79). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203418796-7