A War on Global Poverty : : The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit / / Joanne Meyerowitz.
A history of U.S. involvement in late twentieth-century campaigns against global poverty and how they came to focus on women A War on Global Poverty provides a fresh account of U.S. involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s. From the decline of modernization programs to t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 12 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: From Modernization to Microcredit
- Part I. A War on Global Poverty
- Chapter One. The Trouble with Foreign Aid
- Chapter Two. Redistribution
- Part II. How Women Became the Deserving Poor
- Chapter Three. Developing Women
- Chapter Four. Private Developments
- Part III. The Microcredit Moment
- Chapter Five. Macro Debt and Microcredit
- Epilogue. The Development of Poverty
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- A Note On The Type