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Authored Books

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, Bargawi, Hannah and McKinley, Terry (2011) Standing in the Way of Development? A Critical Survey of the IMF's Crisis Response in Low-Income Countries. Penang: Third World Network. (Third World Network Global Economy Series)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Lavinas, Lena, Martins, Norberto Montani, Goncalves, Guilherme Leite and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, eds. (2024) Financeirização: crise, estagnação e desigualdade. São Paulo, Brazil: Editora Contracorrente.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Deane, Kevin, eds. (2020) Recharting the History of Economic Thought. London: Macmillan Education.

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.

Book Chapters

Chukwuma, Julia Ngozi, Romero, Maria Jose and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2024) 'A financierizacao da suade: O paper do Banco Mundial na promocao das parcerias publico-privadas.' In: Lavinas, Lena, Martins, Norberto Montani, Goncalves, Guilherme Leite and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, (eds.), Financeirizacao. Crise, estagnacao e desigualdade. São Paulo, Brazil: Editora Contracorrente.

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)

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Romero, Maria Jose (2020) 'Beyond typologies. What is a Public Private Partnership?' In: Gideon, Jasmine and Unterhalter, Elaine, (eds.), Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships. London: Routledge.

Miyamura, Satoshi (2020) 'Are We All Rational, Optimising Agents?' In: Deane, Kevin and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, (eds.), Recharting the History of Economic Thought. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Bargawi, Hannah (2020) 'How does economics address gender?' In: Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Deane, Kevin, (eds.), Recharting the History of Economic Thought. London: Red Globe Books, pp. 229-246.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Karwowski, Ewa (2020) 'How do countries develop?' In: Deane, Kevin and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, (eds.), Recharting the History of Economic Thought. London: Macmillan Education.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Bourayou, Chakib (2020) 'How do economies grow?' In: Deane, Kevin and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, (eds.), Recharting the History of Economic Thought. London: Macmillan Education.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2017) 'The post-Washington Consensus.' In: Veltmeyer, Henry and Bowles, Paul, (eds.), The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp. 205-214. (Routledge critical development studies ; v 3)

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.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2010) 'Tightening the Web: the World Bank and Enforced Policy Reform.' In: Birch, Kean and Mykhnenko, Vlad, (eds.), The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism – The Collapse of an Economic Order. London; New York: Zed Books, pp. 94-111.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2006) 'From Washington to post-Washington Consensus: Illusions of Development.' In: Fine, Ben and Jomo, Kwame Sundaram, (eds.), The New Development Economics: After the Washington Consensus. New Delhi: Tulika; London: Zed Books.

Fine, Ben and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2005) 'Correcting Stiglitz: From Information to Power in the World of Development.' In: Panitch, Leo and Leys, Colin, (eds.), Socialist Register 2006: telling the truth. London: Merlin Press.

Journal Article

Chukwuma, Julia Ngozi, Romero, Maria Jose and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2024) 'Healthcare financialisation in the Global South: Examining the role of the World Bank Group in promoting Public Private Partnerships in health in Africa.' The Review of Evolutionary Political Economy. (Forthcoming)

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.

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.

Dimakou, Ourania, Romero, Maria Jose and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (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). pp. 221-237.

Stevano, Sara, Franz, Tobias, Dafermos, Yannis and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2021) 'COVID-19 and Crises of Capitalism: Intensifying Inequalities and Global Responses.' Canadian Journal of Development Studies /Revue canadienne d’études du développement, 42 (1/2). pp. 1-17.

Deane, Kevin, Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Maxwell, Rachel (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). pp. 137-154.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2017) 'Crisis? What crisis? A critical appraisal of World Bank housing policy in the wake of the global financial crisis.' Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 50 (2). pp. 288-309.

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

Fine, Ben, Johnston, Deborah, Santos, Ana and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2016) 'Nudging or Fudging: The World Development Report 2015.' Development and Change, 47 (4). pp. 640-663.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Bargawi, Hannah (2015) 'Moving beyond the paradox of macroeconomic stability in Uganda?' Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 33 (1). pp. 121-140.

Fine, Ben and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2013) 'A Paradigm Shift that Never Was: Justin Lin’s New Structural Economics.' Competition and Change, 17 (4). pp. 355-71.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, Bargawi, Hannah and McKinley, Terry (2013) 'The IMF, Crises and Low-Income Countries: Evidence of Change?' Review of Political Economy, 25 (1). pp. 69-90.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2009) 'Selectivity at Work: Country Policy and Institutional Assessments at the World Bank.' European Journal of Development Research, 21 (5). pp. 792-810.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2008) 'After Structural Adjustment, Then What? Lending Selectivity by the World Bank.' Development Viewpoint (16).

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.

Dimakou, Ourania, Romero, Maria Jose and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2020) Never let a pandemic go to waste : How the World Bank’s Covid-19 response is prioritising the private sector. Brussels: SOAS/Eurodad.

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.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Bargawi, Hannah (2018) Macroeconomic policy, inclusive growth and productive employment in Uganda. Geneva: ILO Employment Policy Department. Employment Working Paper No. 244.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Bargawi, Hannah (2015) Financing Economic Development. Theoretical Debates and Empirical Trends. FESSUD: Working Paper Series, 139.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2015) The Private Turn in Development Finance. Leeds: FESSUD: Working Paper Series no. 140.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2015) Crisis? What crisis? The World Bank and Housing Finance for the Poor. SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper Series, No. 191. London: SOAS University of London.

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

Fine, Ben and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2013) A Paradigm Shift that Never Will Be?: Justin Lin’s New Structural Economics. SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper Series, No. 179.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Bargawi, Hannah (2011) Macroeconomic policy for "full and productive employment and decent work for all": Uganda country study. Geneva: Employment Working Paper No. 91. Geneva International Labour Office.

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Powell, Jeff (2010) Whither Development Finance? Brussels: Eurodad.

Book Reviews

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2012) 'Accountability at the World Bank.' Development and Change, 43 (2). pp. 615-621.

Theses

Van Waeyenberge, Elisa (2007) Exploring the emergence of a new aid regime: Selectivity, knowledge and the World Bank. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00028830