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...

This paper presents an introduction to the concept of systems of provision (sop) and illustrates some of the core themes by applying the sop framework to the study of the financialisation of housing and water. The sop approach considers consumption to be part of a chain of activity interlinked...

This paper provides a critical review of the World Bank Policy Research Report, Bureaucrats in Business, commenting on its position relative to the previous reports in the series and on the new privatization synthesis-the theoretical basis underlying the Bank's approach. The detailed critique...