Kate Bayliss is a Research Associate with the Department of Economics. She has worked extensively on privatisation, financialisation and social equity, in the UK and the global South. Her particular research interest is in the shifting paradigms surrounding private sector engagement in the provision of essential infrastructures and in meeting basic needs.
Publications
The Financialisation of Social Reproduction in the Age of Neoliberalism: From Theory to Case Studies: Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 4
Fine, Benjamin, Bayliss, Kate, Robertson, Mary and Saad-Filho, Alfredo (2024). Leiden: (Brill Academic Publishers)
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
Gianella, Camila, Gideon, Jasmine, Salas, Mariana, Bayliss, Kate, De Falco, Rossella, Romero, María José and Iguiñiz, Ruth, 2024, Journal of Human Rights Practice (16), 3, pp 836-851
A Political Economy Perspective on Mauritian Water Services
Peeroo, Aleksandra and Bayliss, Kate (2025). In: Oya, Carlos, (eds.), Ramtohul, Ramola, (eds.) and Tandrayen-Ragoobur, Verena, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Mauritian Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 384-411
Locating the World Bank: The Unmaking and Remaking of Development Economics in Its Shifting Vision
Bayliss, Kate and Fine, Ben (2024). In: Vetterlein, Antje, (eds.) and Schmidtke, Tobias, (eds.), The Elgar Companion to the World Bank. Cheltenham: Elgar, pp 38-50
The financialization of infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa
Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Bayliss, Kate (2023). In: Chiapello, Eve, (eds.), Engels, Anita, (eds.) and Gonçalves Gresse, Eduardo, (eds.), Financializations of Development: Global Games and Local Experiments. London: Routledge
Fine, Ben and Bayliss, Kate (2020). In: Bernier, L, (eds.), Florio, M, (eds.) and Bance, P, (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of State-Owned Enterprises. London: Routledge, pp 354-371
A Cup Half Full: The World Bank's Assessment of Water Privatisation
Bayliss, Kate (2011). In: Bayliss, Kate, (eds.), Fine, Ben, (eds.) and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, (eds.), The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research. London: Pluto Press
Fine, Ben, Van Waeyenberge, Elisa and Bayliss, Kate (2011). In: Bayliss, Kate, (eds.), Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, (eds.) and Fine, Ben, (eds.), The political economy of development: the World Bank, neoliberalism and development research. London: Pluto
The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research
Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, Fine, Ben and Bayliss, Kate (2011). In: Bayliss, Kate, (eds.), Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, (eds.) and Fine, Ben, (eds.), The political economy of development: the World Bank, neoliberalism and development research. London: Pluto
Privatisation Theory and Practice: A Critical Analysis of Policy Evolution in the Development Context
Bayliss, Kate (2005). In: Jomo, Kwame Sundaram, (eds.) and Fine, Ben, (eds.), The New Development Economics: Post Washington Consensus Neoliberal Thinking. New Delhi: Zed Books
Privatisation and the Post-Washington Consensus: Between the Laboratory and the Real World
Cramer, Christopher and Bayliss, Kate (2001). In: Fine, Ben, (eds.), Lapavitsas, Costas, (eds.) and Pincus, Jonathan, (eds.), Development policy in the 21st century: beyond the post-Washington consensus.. London: Routledge, pp 52-79
The use of development funds for de-risking private investment: how effective is it in delivering development results?
Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, Dimakou, Ourania, Bayliss, Kate, Laskaridis, Christina, Bonizzi, Bruno and Farwa, Sial (2020). Belgium: (European Union. Directorate General for External Policies)
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
Bayliss, Kate, Newborne, Peter and Tucker, Josephine (2012). London: (Overseas Development Institute for WaterAId)
