David Weltman

List of John Benjamins publications for which David Weltman plays a role.

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Weltman, David and Martin Upchurch 2010 The ideal of non-coherence in the World Bank’s social capital reforms: A textual analysis of “gratuitous complexity” Journal of Language and Politics 9:1, pp. 50–73 | Article
This paper presents an analysis of a World Bank document representing a version of the new “Social Capital” approach of International Financial Institutions (IFIs). This stance involves a rhetorical reorientation away from a much criticized unilateral approach to the poor indebted countries and to… read more