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

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