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A War on Global Poverty - The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit (Hardcover)
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A War on Global Poverty - The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit (Hardcover)
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A history of US 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 US involvement in
campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s. From the
decline of modernization programs to the rise of microcredit,
Joanne Meyerowitz looks beyond familiar histories of development
and explains why antipoverty programs increasingly focused on women
as the deserving poor. When the United States joined the war on
global poverty, economists, policymakers, and activists asked how
to change a world in which millions lived in need. Moved to the
left by socialists, social democrats, and religious humanists, they
rejected the notion that economic growth would trickle down to the
poor, and they proposed programs to redress inequities between and
within nations. In an emerging "women in development" movement,
they positioned women as economic actors who could help lift
families and nations out of destitution. In the more conservative
1980s, the war on global poverty turned decisively toward
market-based projects in the private sector. Development experts
and antipoverty advocates recast women as entrepreneurs and
imagined microcredit-with its tiny loans-as a grassroots solution.
Meyerowitz shows that at the very moment when the overextension of
credit left poorer nations bankrupt, loans to impoverished women
came to replace more ambitious proposals that aimed at
redistribution. Based on a wealth of sources, A War on Global
Poverty looks at a critical transformation in antipoverty efforts
in the late twentieth century and points to its legacies today.
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