This paper draws lessons from the history of water provision in the industrialised world, and the failure of colonial municipal water utilities, to illuminate the social, political and financial challenges facing improved urban water supply in the global south. It distinguishes four trajectories...

The production structures of information industries, the mechanisms that translate information into new products and power, remain opaque. Without defining these micro-foundational patterns, simple questions — what is information, how is it produced, is this production structure...

Social capital is widely recognized as one of the few sources of capital available to the poor, yet the processes by which development policies a¡ect the accumulation of that social capital are not well understood. TheWorld Bank, through its funding of development projects, affects the...