Kate Bayli
Biographic Data
| ID | 195258 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Bayli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Bayli |
| SIGNATURE | BAYLI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9018-5085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
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
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 segmented healthcare system, and the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the deeply embedded inequalities in accessing healthcare across the country. Nevertheless, the construction of hospitals financed and managed via…
Water for all’: The unlikely confluence of divergent interests (in resisting neoliberalism and promoting human rights) in Mumbai’s slums
Despite pressure from international donors and the national government, neoliberal policies have not had a transformational impact on the way water is provided in Mumbai. Some modest reforms were introduced but these have not led to major change. Moreover, in 2022 the city introduced a policy of ‘Water for All’ to extend water access to slum areas. At first sight this system might seem to be a socially progressive approach to water management, wh…
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain
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 unavoidable under neoliberalism. This article shows that the 'market-based' reforms and the 'rollback of the state' that overtly characterise neoliberalism are heavily reliant upon public policy and e…
Contested geographies of water financialisation in the ‘global South’
From addressing to redressing consumption: How the System of Provision approach helps
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 clarity and distinctions. The System of Provision (SoP) approach can only wrongly be considered as guilty of this fault. Since first devised some 30 years ago to address the study of consumption, its scope…
Private equity and the regulation of financialised infrastructure: The case of Macquarie in Britain's water and energy networks
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 innovative financial mechanisms for increasing investor returns that are unrelated to productive activity. The resulting financialised, highly-indebted corporate structures create costs and risks for util…
The power paradigm in practice: A critical review of developments in the Zambian electricity sector
Sub-Saharan Africa lags behind the rest of the world in electricity access and consumption. Infrastructure deficiencies are framed in terms of a “financing gap”, with policy oriented around attracting global private capital. Recent calls for increased private infrastructure investment follow three decades of market-oriented sector reforms. This paper explores the way that this standard policy paradigm has unfolded in Zambia. Drawing on the System…
Uneven outcomes from private infrastructure finance: Evidence From Two Case Studies
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 partnerships (PPPs), celebrated for their success in mobilising private funds: a road in Senegal and a hospital in Brazil. While these projects may have had some positive outcomes, their apparent success relie…
Unpacking the Public Private Partnership Revival
This paper examines the recent resurgence of interest in public-private partnerships (PPPs) to provide infrastructure in developing countries. First, the paper demonstrates that there has been a revival of support for private sector participation in infrastructure. Second, the paper argues that this revival differs from earlier attempts to increase the involvement of the private sector in public service provision in a number of respects. In parti…
Material cultures of water financialisation in England and Wales
The ownership structure of the water and sewerage sector has changed substantially in England and Wales (EW) since the 10 companies were listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1989. The majority of firms are now delisted and a number of companies are now owned by financial investors via special purpose vehicles. In some cases, revenue streams from customer water bills have become securitised for decades into the future not only to raise funds for…
Introduction to special issue on the material cultures of financialisation
This paper offers a wide-ranging introduction to the symposium on the material culture of financialisation. It begins by addressing the nature of financialisation itself, drawing on a tight definition in order to distinguish the phenomenon of financialisation from its effects and from the looser associations prevalent within much of the literature such as the presence of credit or even simply (more extensive) monetary relations. In order to locat…
The Financialization of Water
This paper aims to locate developments in water delivery within broader financialization trends by considering three aspects of water management. First, despite clear failings of privatization over the past twenty years, state support for the private sector continues. Second, innovations have emerged so that water consumption generates wealth for private investment finance. Finally, private enterprises have gained increasing influence in sector p…
Water Resources and Development - By Clive Agnew and Philip Woodhouse: Book Reviews
Privatization and Alternative Public Sector Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa
it is increasingly apparent that the privatization experiment in sub-Saharan Africa has failed. This book shows that the state is set to dominate service delivery for the foreseeable future in much of
Tanzania: From Nationalization to Privatization — and Back
Tanzania had stronger socialist leanings than most other countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) following independence in the 1960s, and it was one of the later countries to embrace market-oriented reforms (Tsikata 2003). Following economic crises in the late 1970s the country signed its first Structural Adjustment Programme with the IMF in 1986. Second-generation reforms followed, with privatization gaining in prominence in the 1990s and, by the …
Utility privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Water
Over the past twenty years, the focus of development policy has shifted from the state to the private sector. Privatisation is now central to utility reform in much of SSA. This paper sets out developments in water privatisation and reviews the evidence regarding its impact. Water privatisation has been carried out to some degree in at least fourteen countries in the region, and many other governments are at various stages in the privatisation pr…
Privatization And Poverty: The Distributional Impact of Utility Privatization
This article examines the effects on poverty of privatization, an impact to which donors have given little attention in their concern with efficiency and markets. The analysis of the distributional impact of privatization activities draws on empirical cases in the utilities sector in a wide range of developing economies, principally in Africa and Latin America. After a critical consideration of the World Bank position on privatization strategies,…
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain
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 unavoidable under neoliberalism. This article shows that the 'market-based' reforms and the 'rollback of the state' that overtly characterise neoliberalism are heavily reliant upon public policy and e…
Introduction to special issue on the material cultures of financialisation
This paper offers a wide-ranging introduction to the symposium on the material culture of financialisation. It begins by addressing the nature of financialisation itself, drawing on a tight definition in order to distinguish the phenomenon of financialisation from its effects and from the looser associations prevalent within much of the literature such as the presence of credit or even simply (more extensive) monetary relations. In order to locat…
Material cultures of water financialisation in England and Wales
The ownership structure of the water and sewerage sector has changed substantially in England and Wales (EW) since the 10 companies were listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1989. The majority of firms are now delisted and a number of companies are now owned by financial investors via special purpose vehicles. In some cases, revenue streams from customer water bills have become securitised for decades into the future not only to raise funds for…
Utility privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Water
Over the past twenty years, the focus of development policy has shifted from the state to the private sector. Privatisation is now central to utility reform in much of SSA. This paper sets out developments in water privatisation and reviews the evidence regarding its impact. Water privatisation has been carried out to some degree in at least fourteen countries in the region, and many other governments are at various stages in the privatisation pr…
Private equity and the regulation of financialised infrastructure: The case of Macquarie in Britain's water and energy networks
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 innovative financial mechanisms for increasing investor returns that are unrelated to productive activity. The resulting financialised, highly-indebted corporate structures create costs and risks for util…
Privatization And Poverty: The Distributional Impact of Utility Privatization
This article examines the effects on poverty of privatization, an impact to which donors have given little attention in their concern with efficiency and markets. The analysis of the distributional impact of privatization activities draws on empirical cases in the utilities sector in a wide range of developing economies, principally in Africa and Latin America. After a critical consideration of the World Bank position on privatization strategies,…
Water for all’: The unlikely confluence of divergent interests (in resisting neoliberalism and promoting human rights) in Mumbai’s slums
Despite pressure from international donors and the national government, neoliberal policies have not had a transformational impact on the way water is provided in Mumbai. Some modest reforms were introduced but these have not led to major change. Moreover, in 2022 the city introduced a policy of ‘Water for All’ to extend water access to slum areas. At first sight this system might seem to be a socially progressive approach to water management, wh…
From addressing to redressing consumption: How the System of Provision approach helps
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 clarity and distinctions. The System of Provision (SoP) approach can only wrongly be considered as guilty of this fault. Since first devised some 30 years ago to address the study of consumption, its scope…
Uneven outcomes from private infrastructure finance: Evidence From Two Case Studies
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 partnerships (PPPs), celebrated for their success in mobilising private funds: a road in Senegal and a hospital in Brazil. While these projects may have had some positive outcomes, their apparent success relie…
Contested geographies of water financialisation in the ‘global South’
Privatization And Poverty: The Distributional Impact of Utility Privatization
This article examines the effects on poverty of privatization, an impact to which donors have given little attention in their concern with efficiency and markets. The analysis of the distributional impact of privatization activities draws on empirical cases in the utilities sector in a wide range of developing economies, principally in Africa and Latin America. After a critical consideration of the World Bank position on privatization strategies,…
Utility privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Water
Over the past twenty years, the focus of development policy has shifted from the state to the private sector. Privatisation is now central to utility reform in much of SSA. This paper sets out developments in water privatisation and reviews the evidence regarding its impact. Water privatisation has been carried out to some degree in at least fourteen countries in the region, and many other governments are at various stages in the privatisation pr…
Privatization and Alternative Public Sector Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa
it is increasingly apparent that the privatization experiment in sub-Saharan Africa has failed. This book shows that the state is set to dominate service delivery for the foreseeable future in much of
Tanzania: From Nationalization to Privatization — and Back
Tanzania had stronger socialist leanings than most other countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) following independence in the 1960s, and it was one of the later countries to embrace market-oriented reforms (Tsikata 2003). Following economic crises in the late 1970s the country signed its first Structural Adjustment Programme with the IMF in 1986. Second-generation reforms followed, with privatization gaining in prominence in the 1990s and, by the …
Water Resources and Development - By Clive Agnew and Philip Woodhouse: Book Reviews
The Financialization of Water
This paper aims to locate developments in water delivery within broader financialization trends by considering three aspects of water management. First, despite clear failings of privatization over the past twenty years, state support for the private sector continues. Second, innovations have emerged so that water consumption generates wealth for private investment finance. Finally, private enterprises have gained increasing influence in sector p…
Material cultures of water financialisation in England and Wales
The ownership structure of the water and sewerage sector has changed substantially in England and Wales (EW) since the 10 companies were listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1989. The majority of firms are now delisted and a number of companies are now owned by financial investors via special purpose vehicles. In some cases, revenue streams from customer water bills have become securitised for decades into the future not only to raise funds for…
Introduction to special issue on the material cultures of financialisation
This paper offers a wide-ranging introduction to the symposium on the material culture of financialisation. It begins by addressing the nature of financialisation itself, drawing on a tight definition in order to distinguish the phenomenon of financialisation from its effects and from the looser associations prevalent within much of the literature such as the presence of credit or even simply (more extensive) monetary relations. In order to locat…
Unpacking the Public Private Partnership Revival
This paper examines the recent resurgence of interest in public-private partnerships (PPPs) to provide infrastructure in developing countries. First, the paper demonstrates that there has been a revival of support for private sector participation in infrastructure. Second, the paper argues that this revival differs from earlier attempts to increase the involvement of the private sector in public service provision in a number of respects. In parti…
The power paradigm in practice: A critical review of developments in the Zambian electricity sector
Sub-Saharan Africa lags behind the rest of the world in electricity access and consumption. Infrastructure deficiencies are framed in terms of a “financing gap”, with policy oriented around attracting global private capital. Recent calls for increased private infrastructure investment follow three decades of market-oriented sector reforms. This paper explores the way that this standard policy paradigm has unfolded in Zambia. Drawing on the System…
Uneven outcomes from private infrastructure finance: Evidence From Two Case Studies
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 partnerships (PPPs), celebrated for their success in mobilising private funds: a road in Senegal and a hospital in Brazil. While these projects may have had some positive outcomes, their apparent success relie…
From addressing to redressing consumption: How the System of Provision approach helps
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 clarity and distinctions. The System of Provision (SoP) approach can only wrongly be considered as guilty of this fault. Since first devised some 30 years ago to address the study of consumption, its scope…
Private equity and the regulation of financialised infrastructure: The case of Macquarie in Britain's water and energy networks
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 innovative financial mechanisms for increasing investor returns that are unrelated to productive activity. The resulting financialised, highly-indebted corporate structures create costs and risks for util…
Contested geographies of water financialisation in the ‘global South’
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
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 segmented healthcare system, and the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the deeply embedded inequalities in accessing healthcare across the country. Nevertheless, the construction of hospitals financed and managed via…
Water for all’: The unlikely confluence of divergent interests (in resisting neoliberalism and promoting human rights) in Mumbai’s slums
Despite pressure from international donors and the national government, neoliberal policies have not had a transformational impact on the way water is provided in Mumbai. Some modest reforms were introduced but these have not led to major change. Moreover, in 2022 the city introduced a policy of ‘Water for All’ to extend water access to slum areas. At first sight this system might seem to be a socially progressive approach to water management, wh…
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain
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 unavoidable under neoliberalism. This article shows that the 'market-based' reforms and the 'rollback of the state' that overtly characterise neoliberalism are heavily reliant upon public policy and e…
Economics (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Business (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Finance (7 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 works) · Private sector (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (7 works) · Market economy (6 works)