Chapter 1 – Introduction: Background to the SoP Approach -- Chapter 2 – The SoP Approach: Theoretical Background and Empirical Practice -- Chapter 3 – Understanding Material Cultures -- Chapter 4 – Insights from Operationalizing the SoP Approach -- Chapter 5 – A SoP Approach to...

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 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...

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Cover -- Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Preface -- Part I: Preliminaries and Principles -- 1. The World Bank, Neo-Liberalism and Development Research (Elisa Van Waeyenberge, Ben Fine and Kate Bayliss) -- 2. A Knowledge Bank? (Elisa Van Waeyenberge and Ben Fine) -- Part II: Research in...