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Full Record Check this checkbox to mark or unmark the current record AUTHOR Meyerowitz, Joanne, 1954-. TITLE A war on global poverty : the lost promise of redistribution and the rise of microcredit [electronic resource] / Joanne Meyerowitz. IMPRINT Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021. DESCRIPTION 1 online resource (x, 311 p.) : ill. SERIES Gale eBooks. NOTE Includes bibliographical references and index. CONTENT NOTE part I. A war on global poverty -- part II. How women became the deserving poor -- part III. The microcredit moment. 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. SUBJECT Economic assistance. SUBJECT Economic development. SUBJECT Globalization -- Economic aspects. SUBJECT Microfinance. SUBJECT Poverty. DISCIPLINE Economic. DISCIPLINE Internet Resources. LINK Available via Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click here to access (Password can be acquired from eClass public announcement) ISBN 9780691219974 (ebk.). Location Call Number Status World Wide Web 339.46 MEY ebook Internet 網上資源