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Authored Books

Fine, Ben and Bayliss, Kate (2021) A Guide to the Systems of Provision Approach: Who Gets What, How and Why. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Bayliss, Kate, Fine, Ben and Robertson, Mary, eds. (2018) Material Cultures of Financialisation. Abingdon; New York, NY: Routledge.

Bayliss, Kate, Fine, Ben and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, eds. (2011) The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research. London: Pluto Press.

Bayliss, Kate and Fine, Ben, eds. (2007) Privatization and Alternative Public Sector Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: Delivering on Electricity and Water. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Chapters

Bayliss, Kate and Fine, Ben (2024) 'Locating the World Bank: The Unmaking and Remaking of Development Economics in Its Shifting Vision.' In: Vetterlein, Antje and Schmidtke, Tobias, (eds.), The Elgar Companion to the World Bank. Cheltenham: Elgar, pp. 38-50. (Elgar Companions to International Organisations)

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Bayliss, Kate (2023) 'The financialization of infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa.' In: Chiapello, Eve, Engels, Anita and Gonçalves Gresse, Eduardo, (eds.), Financializations of Development: Global Games and Local Experiments. London: Routledge. (Routledge Explorations in Development Studies)

Fine, Ben and Bayliss, Kate (2020) 'Financialisation and the Future for SOEs.' In: Bernier, L, Florio, M and Bance, P, (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of State-Owned Enterprises. London: Routledge, pp. 354-371. (Routledge international handbooks.)

Fine, Ben (2018) 'The Material and Culture of Financialisation.' In: Bayliss, Kate, Fine, Ben and Robertson, Mary, (eds.), Material Cultures of Financialisation. Abingdon; New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 17-28.

Fine, Ben, Bayliss, Kate and Robertson, Mary (2018) 'The Systems of Provision Approach to Understanding Consumption.' In: Kravets, Olga, Maclaran, Pauline, Miles, Steven and Venkatesh, Alladi, (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Consumer Culture. London: Sage, pp. 27-42.

Bayliss, Kate (2011) 'A Cup Half Full: The World Bank's Assessment of Water Privatisation.' In: Bayliss, Kate, Fine, Ben and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, (eds.), The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research. London: Pluto Press. (Political economy and development)

Lo, Dic (2011) 'The Washington Consensus and the China anomaly.' In: Bayliss, Kate, Fine, Ben and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, (eds.), The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research. London: Pluto Press.

Johnston, Deborah (2011) 'World Bank Research on HIV/AIDS: Praise Where It's Due?' In: Bayliss, Kate, Fine, Ben and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, (eds.), The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research. London: Pluto Press.

Oya, Carlos (2011) 'Agriculture in the World Bank: Blighted Harvest Persists.' In: Bayliss, Kate, Fine, Ben and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, (eds.), The Political Economy of Development. The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research. London: Pluto Press, pp. 146-187.

Cramer, Christopher and Goodhand, Jonathan (2011) 'Hard science or waffly crap? Evidence-based policy versus policy-based evidence in the field of violent conflict.' In: Bayliss, Kate, Fine, Ben and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, (eds.), The Political Economy of Development. The World Bank, Neo-Liberalism and Development Reseearch. London: Pluto Press, pp. 215-238.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Fine, Ben (2011) 'A Knowledge Bank?' In: Bayliss, Kate, Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Fine, Ben, (eds.), The political economy of development: the World Bank, neoliberalism and development research. London: Pluto.

dos Santos, Paulo L. (2011) 'A Policy Wrapped in ‘Analysis’— The World Bank’s Case for Foreign Banks.' In: Bayliss, Kate, Fine, Ben and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, (eds.), The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research. London: Pluto.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2011) 'Understanding Aid at the Bank.' In: Bayliss, Kate, Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Fine, Ben, (eds.), The political economy of development: the World Bank, neoliberalism and development research. London: Pluto.

Fine, Ben, Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Bayliss, Kate (2011) 'Whither World Bank Research?' In: Bayliss, Kate, Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Fine, Ben, (eds.), The political economy of development: the World Bank, neoliberalism and development research. London: Pluto.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, Fine, Ben and Bayliss, Kate (2011) 'The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research.' In: Bayliss, Kate, Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Fine, Ben, (eds.), The political economy of development: the World Bank, neoliberalism and development research. London: Pluto.

Bayliss, Kate (2005) 'Privatisation Theory and Practice: A Critical Analysis of Policy Evolution in the Development Context.' In: Jomo, Kwame Sundaram and Fine, Ben, (eds.), The New Development Economics: Post Washington Consensus Neoliberal Thinking. New Delhi: Zed Books.

Cramer, Christopher and Bayliss, Kate (2001) 'Privatisation and the Post-Washington Consensus: Between the Laboratory and the Real World.' In: Fine, Ben, Lapavitsas, Costas and Pincus, Jonathan, (eds.), Development policy in the 21st century: beyond the post-Washington consensus. London: Routledge, pp. 52-79. (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)

Journal Article

Bayliss, Kate, Fine, Ben, Robertson, Mary and Saad-Filho, Alfredo (2024) 'Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain.' European Journal of Social Theory, 27 (4). pp. 540-560.

Gianella, Camila, Gideon, Jasmine, Salas, Mariana, Bayliss, Kate, De Falco, Rossella, Romero, María José and Iguiñiz, Ruth (2024) '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). pp. 836-851.

Bayliss, Kate and Deekshit, Pranjal (2024) ''Water for all': The unlikely confluence of divergent interests (in resisting neoliberalism and promoting human rights) in Mumbai’s slums.' Geoforum, 153. p. 104024.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, Bayliss, Kate and Bowles, Benjamin (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). pp. 155-172.

Bayliss, Kate (2022) 'Can ENGLAND'S National Health System Reforms Overcome the Neoliberal Legacy?' International Journal of Health Services, 52 (4). pp. 480-491.

Buse, Kent and Bayliss, Kate (2022) 'England's privatised water: profits over people and planet.' British Medical Journal, 378. o2076.

Fine, Ben and Bayliss, Kate (2022) 'From Addressing to Redressing Consumption: How the System of Provision Approach Helps.' Consumption and Society, 1 (1). pp. 197-206.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, Bowles, Benjamin and Bayliss, Kate (2021) 'London’s “Super Sewer”: A case study for the interdisciplinary possibilities of anthropologists and economists investigating infrastructure together.' Research in Economic Anthropology, 41. pp. 5-30.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, Bayliss, Kate and Romero, Maria Jose (2021) 'Uneven outcomes from private infrastructure finance: evidence from two case studies.' Development in Practice, 31 (7). pp. 934-945.

Bayliss, Kate and Fine, Ben (2021) 'Food, Diet and the Pandemic.' Theory and Struggle, 122 (1). pp. 46-57.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Bayliss, Kate (2017) 'Unpacking the Public Private Partnership Revival.' Journal of Development Studies, 54 (4). pp. 577-593.

Bayliss, Kate, Fine, Ben and Robertson, Mary (2016) 'Introduction to Special Issue on the Material Cultures of Financialisation.' New Political Economy, 22 (4). pp. 355-370.

Bayliss, Kate (2016) 'Material cultures of water financialisation in England and Wales.' New Political Economy, 22 (4). pp. 383-397.

Bayliss, Kate (2014) 'The Financialization of Water.' Review of Radical Political Economics, 14 (3). pp. 292-307.

Bayliss, Kate (2008) 'Lessons from the South African Electricity Crisis.' Development Viewpoint (3).

Bayliss, Kate (2003) 'Utility privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of water.' Journal of Modern African Studies, 41 (4). pp. 507-531.

Bayliss, Kate (2002) 'Privatization and Poverty: The Distributional Impact of Utility Privatization.' Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 73 (4). pp. 603-625.

Fine, Ben and Bayliss, Kate (1998) 'Beyond “Bureaucrats in Business”: A Critical Review of the World Bank Approach to Privatisation and Public Sector Reform.' Journal of International Development, 10 (7). pp. 841-855.

Monographs and Working Papers

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, Bayliss, Kate and Bowles, Benjamin (2021) Shapeshifting in UK Infrastructure Finance and the Limits of Regulation. London: ESRC/NIESR Rebuilding Macroeconomics Network Working Paper 61.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, Dimakou, Ourania, Bayliss, Kate, Laskaridis, Christina, Bonizzi, Bruno and Farwa, Sial (2020) The use of development funds for de-risking private investment: how effective is it in delivering development results? Belgium: European Union.

Bayliss, Kate (2016) Neoliberalised Water in South Africa. Leeds: Financialisation, Economy, Society and Sustainable Development (FESSUD), Working Paper Series No. 204.

Fine, Ben, Bayliss, Kate and Robertson, Mary (2016) Housing and Water in Light of Financialisation and “Financialisation. FESSUD Working Paper Series; No. 156.

Bayliss, Kate, Robertson, Mary and Saad Filho, Alfredo (2016) Thirteen Things You Need to Know about Neoliberalism. Leeds: FESSUD Working Paper Series No. 155.

Bayliss, Kate (2016) The Financialisation of Health in England: Lessons from the Water Sector.

Fine, Ben and Bayliss, Kate (2016) Finance and economic and social reproduction: Origins of the present and implications for the future. Leeds: FESSUD Working Paper Series No. 173.

Fine, Ben, Bayliss, Kate and Robertson, Mary (2016) From Financialisation to Systems of Provision. Leeds: FESSUD Working Paper Series No.191.

Fine, Ben and Bayliss, Kate (2016) Paper on Theoretical Framework for Assessing the Impact of Finance on Public Provision. Leeds: FESSUD Working Paper Series No. 192.

Bayliss, Kate, Fine, Ben and Robertson, Mary (2016) The Role of the State in Financialised Systems of Provision: Social Compacting, Social Policy, and Privatisation. Fessud Working Paper Series; No. 154.

Fine, Ben, Bayliss, Kate, Robertson, Mary and Churchill, Jennifer (2016) Summary report on the impacts of financialisation and of the financial crisis on household well-being. Leeds: FESSUD Working Paper Series No. 199.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Bayliss, Kate (2015) Funding Infrastructure: Critical Observations and Lessons for Cuba. (Unpublished)

Bayliss, Kate (2014) The Financialisation of Water in England and Wales. Leeds: FESSUD Working Paper Series no. 52.

Bayliss, Kate (2013) Financing Water in Africa. No. 182, SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper Series..

Bayliss, Kate, Fine, Ben and Robertson, Mary (2013) From Financialisation to Consumption: The Systems of Provision Approach Applied to Housing and Water. Leeds: FESSUD Working Paper Series No. 2.

Bayliss, Kate, Newborne, Peter and Tucker, Josephine (2012) Strengthening pro-poor targeting of investments by African utilities in urban water and sanitation - the role of the International Development Association of the World Bank: Case studies from Ghana, Burkina Faso and Tanzania. London: Overseas Development Institute for WaterAId.

Bayliss, Kate and Tukai, Rehema (2011) Services and supply chains: The role of the domestic private sector in water service delivery in Tanzania. United Nations Development Programme.

Bayliss, Kate and Watasa, Sam (2011) Output-based Contracts in Small Town Water Supply in Uganda: Challenges and Opportunities. United Nations Development Programme.

Bayliss, Kate (2009) Private Sector Participation in African Infrastructure: Is it Worth the Risk? Brasilia, Brazil: IPC-IG. Working Paper Number 55.

Bayliss, Kate and McKinley, Terry (2007) Privatising Basic Utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: The MDG Impact. Brasilia: International Poverty Centre: Policy Research Brief No. 3.

Bayliss, Kate and Kessler, Tim (2006) Can Privatisation and Commercialisation of Public Services Help Achieve the MDGs? An Assessment. Brasilia: International Poverty Centre: Working Paper, no.22.

Bayliss, Kate (2005) Post-conflict Privatisation: A Review of Developments in Serbia and Bosnia Herzegovina. London: Overseas Development Institute: ESAU Working Paper, no.12.