Sajeroning wawengkon internasional, Ben Fine (2001) miwah John Harriss (2001) sampun nungkas indike pengganggen modal sosial pinaka tamba pangentas (ngawedarang seka sipil miwah LSM, umpaminyane, pinaka ipun sane ngewangun) anggen ngentasin pikobet saking pawangunan ekonomi neoliberal.
In international development, Ben Fine (2001) and John Harriss (2001) have been heavily critical of the inappropriate adoption of social capital as a supposed panacea (promoting civil society organisations and NGOs, for example, as agents of development) for the inequalities generated by neoliberal economic development.