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DR Kate Bayliss' Outputs (54)

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.

A 'Common Sense' Response to Health Inequalities in Peru? Public-Private Partnerships in Health and the Implications for the Right to Health and Economic Inequality (2024)
Journal Article
Gianella, C., Gideon, J., Salas, M., Bayliss, K., De Falco, R., Romero, M. J., & Iguiñiz, R. A 'Common Sense' Response to Health Inequalities in Peru? Public-Private Partnerships in Health and the Implications for the Right to Health and Economic Inequality. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 16(3), 836-851. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huae016

Drawing on the case of Peru, our analysis looks at the ways in which the mainstream media creates support for government policies aimed at implementing Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the health sector. Peru has a highly fragmented and segmente... Read More about A 'Common Sense' Response to Health Inequalities in Peru? Public-Private Partnerships in Health and the Implications for the Right to Health and Economic Inequality.

Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain (2024)
Journal Article
Bayliss, K., Fine, B., Robertson, M., & Saad-Filho, A. (2024). Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain. European Journal of Social Theory, 27(4), 540-560. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310241241800

Recent declarations of the end of neoliberalism in the United Kingdom, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic, are underpinned by diffuse and unstructured understandings of the neoliberal state. We argue that state intervention is both necessary and... Read More about Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain.

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.

From Addressing to Redressing Consumption: How the System of Provision Approach Helps (2022)
Journal Article
Fine, B., & Bayliss, K. (in press). From Addressing to Redressing Consumption: How the System of Provision Approach Helps. Consumption and Society, 1(1), 197-206. https://doi.org/10.1332/KDRH7457

Critics of consumption studies contend that it has become conceived as a broad catch-all for too diverse a range of phenomena, forcing these categorically into questionable commonalities around the consumer/consumed without regard to conceptual clari... Read More about From Addressing to Redressing Consumption: How the System of Provision Approach Helps.

Can ENGLAND'S National Health System Reforms Overcome the Neoliberal Legacy? (2022)
Journal Article
Bayliss, K. (2022). Can ENGLAND'S National Health System Reforms Overcome the Neoliberal Legacy?. International journal of health services, 52(4), 480-491. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207314221115945

England’s National Health Service (NHS) is in the process of major reform as old institutional structures based around an internal “market” are being replaced with integrated care systems. The changes represent a significant shift in ethos away from... Read More about Can ENGLAND'S National Health System Reforms Overcome the Neoliberal Legacy?.

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. (in press). 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.

A Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach: Who Gets What, How and Why (2021)
Book
Fine, B., & Bayliss, K. (2021). A Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach: Who Gets What, How and Why. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54143-9

Understanding consumption requires looking at the systems by which goods and services are provided – not just how they are produced but the historically evolved structures, power relations and cultures within which they are located. The Systems of Pr... Read More about A Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach: Who Gets What, How and Why.

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?.

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.

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.