TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meyerowitz,Joanne J.
TI  - War on global poverty: the lost promise of redistribution and the rise of microcredit 
SN  - 9780691206332
U1  - 339.46 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Economic assistance
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Distributive justice
KW  - Microfinance
N2  - 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
ER  -