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It’s hard to believe, but the verb to disagree never appears in the Reports; disagreement, twice in seventy years. It’s the formula made famous by Margaret Thatcher: There Is No Alternative.

What do nominalizations do, that the Reports should use them with such insistence? They take ‘actions and processes’ and turn them into ‘abstract objects’

In the passage from 2008, the terms action and cooperation belong to a class of words usually known as ‘nominalizations’, or ‘derived abstract nouns’

Though never absent from the Bank's vocabulary, management started its ascent in the late 1970s, when the debt question became central, and was subsequently associated with the drastic 'structural adjustment' policies of the neo-liberal offensive.

Portfolio [...] undergoes a vertiginous rise