War on global poverty : the lost promise of redistribution and the rise of microcredit

By:

Meyerowitz, Joanne J

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford Princeton University Press 2021Description: 311pISBN:

9780691206332

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

339.46 MEY

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Books	BMU Library	Reference	339.46 MEY (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Not For Loan	SOET		15538

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.

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