TY - BOOK AU - Meyerowitz,Joanne TI - A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit SN - 9780691219974 PY - 2021///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Economic assistance KW - Economic development KW - Globalization KW - Economic aspects KW - Microfinance KW - Poverty KW - HISTORY / World KW - bisacsh KW - Ananya Roy KW - Eileen Boris KW - Ford Foundation KW - Global Development KW - Inequality KW - International Women’s Year KW - Jocelyn Olcott KW - Making the Woman Worker KW - NGOs KW - NIEO KW - New International Economic Order KW - Nick Cullather KW - Poverty Capital KW - Sara Lorenzini KW - Sorting Out the Mixed Economy KW - The Hungry World KW - U.S. history KW - USAID KW - World Bank KW - antipoverty movement KW - business development KW - debt KW - development economics KW - economic history KW - famine KW - foreign aid KW - gender KW - global South KW - globalization KW - hunger KW - microfinance KW - trickle-down economics KW - women’s empowerment KW - women’s history N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691219974?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691219974 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691219974/original ER -