War on global poverty : the lost promise of redistribution and the rise of microcredit
Meyerowitz, Joanne J.
War on global poverty : the lost promise of redistribution and the rise of microcredit - Oxford Princeton University Press 2021 - 311p
This book provides an account of U.S. involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s. From the decline of modernization programs to the rise of microcredit, it looks beyond familiar histories of development and explains why antipoverty programs increasingly focused on women as the deserving poor.
9780691206332
Poverty
Economic assistance.
Economic development.
Globalization
Distributive justice.
Microfinance.
339.46 / MEY
War on global poverty : the lost promise of redistribution and the rise of microcredit - Oxford Princeton University Press 2021 - 311p
This book provides an account of U.S. involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s. From the decline of modernization programs to the rise of microcredit, it looks beyond familiar histories of development and explains why antipoverty programs increasingly focused on women as the deserving poor.
9780691206332
Poverty
Economic assistance.
Economic development.
Globalization
Distributive justice.
Microfinance.
339.46 / MEY