Global Water, Energy & Infrastructure

Research on water, energy and infrastructure provision in the global south, including case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Central Asia and Australia.


  1. 2026
    The Rocky Road to Net Zero: Conflict and Contestation in Creating a Gas-Free Victoria

    Journal of Australian Political Economy, 96, 77–103. With Jim Crossthwaite and Elke Pirgmaier.

  2. 2025
    A Political Economy Perspective on Mauritian Water Services

    In C. Oya, R. Ramola and T.R. Verena (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Mauritian Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 384–411. With Aleksandra Peeroo. Book chapter.

  3. 2024
  4. 2023
    The Financialization of Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Chapter 5, pp. 78–92 in E. Chiapello, A. Engels, E. Gonçalves Gresse (eds.) Financialisations of Development: Global Games and Local Experiments. Routledge: London. With Elisa Van Waeyenberge. Book chapter.

  5. 2021
    Uneven outcomes from private infrastructure finance: evidence from two case studies

    Development in Practice. With Maria Jose Romero & Elisa Van Waeyenberge. Journal article.

  6. 2021
  7. 2020
    Moving the goalposts: Reconfiguring the role of the private sector in the provision of water

    Chapter 5 (pp.79–97) in J. Gideon and E. Unterhalter (eds.) Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships. Routledge: London. Book chapter.

  8. 2019
    From Global to Local: Exploring the effects of the global energy policy paradigm in Zambia

    Working Paper No. 119, Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds. With Gabriel Pollen.

  9. 2016
  10. 2016
    Tajikistan Water Public Environmental Expenditure Review

    Report for UNDP prepared with team from NAMO Consultancy, Dushanbe.

  11. 2016
    Neoliberalised Water in South Africa

    FESSUD Working Paper Series, No. 204.

  12. 2016
    Public, not private, money needed to plug Africa's water and sanitation gaps

    The Conversation, 23 October 2016.

  13. 2014
    The Financialization of Water

    Review of Radical Political Economics. Journal article.

  14. 2013
    Financing Water in Africa

    SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper Series, No. 182.

  15. 2013
    Commercialising Communities: Transitions in Water management in rural Senegal

    UNDP Working Paper. With Seydi Ababacar Dieng and Mansour Diop.

  16. 2012
    Where have all the Alternatives Gone?: The Shrinking of Africa's Water Policy Options

    In D. McDonald and G. Ruiters (eds.) Alternatives to Privatization: Public Options for Essential Services in the Global South. Routledge. With Al-Hassan Adam. Book chapter.

  17. 2012
  18. 2011
  19. 2011