A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit

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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 look

Joanne Meyerowitz is the Arthur Unobskey Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. Her books include Women Adrift and How Sex Changed.

"Winner of the Myrna F. Bernath Book Award, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Meyerowitz's narrative puts into dialogue the usually separate histories of development doctrine, post-1960s leftism, global feminism, and the economics of microcredit. . . . A War on Global Poverty fills an important gap in the literature."---Nils Gilman, Journal of American History "Joanne Meyerowitz's A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit makes clear that the US welfare state has always had an international dimension. We can't understand how the social safety net eroded without examining its reach abroad."---Maia Silber, Chicago Review "Meyerowitz rightly foregrounds the significance of gendered notions of uplift and empowerment in remaking international aid." * Boston Review *