First, the sharp ascendency of a market-friendly perspective on infrastructure that gained wide currency by the 1980s prompted the emergence of a narrow er view related to measuring, understanding and improving conditions for providing infrastructure at the micro level (see e.g. Andres et al., In the case of the United Kingdom, the resulting reorganization was not just a transfer of state-owned business into private hands, it entailed commercialization of infrastructure sectors in an “attempt to re-engineer public institutions on a model of market exchange” (Meek, 2014: 57). This view was promoted in developing countries, in particular, through the World Bank's Doing Business Report}9 Second, the process of hypeiglobalization that picked up steam during the 1990s (see TDR 2017) further cemented these processes by promoting a global shift towards privatized infrastructure services and the financialization of infrastructure provision. Priemus and van Wee (2013) note that infrastructure no longer is just a public good, but has now become a w'idely popular, globally-traded, asset class.