War on Global Poverty (eBook)

The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit

Joanne Meyerowitz (Autor)

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2021
328 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21997-4 (ISBN)

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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 "e;women in development"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.4.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 12 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Logistik / Produktion
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
• Themenwelt: Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Bankbetriebslehre
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: activism • Aid • Amendment • ananya roy • antipoverty movement • beneficiary • Business Development • Capitalism • C. Fred Bergsten • debt • Debt Crisis • developed country • Developing Country • development aid • Development Economics • development plan • Economic Development • Economic Growth • Economic History • economic interventionism • Economics • economist • economy • Eileen Boris • Ela Bhatt • Employment • Empowerment • Entrepreneurship • Ester Boserup • famine • Feminist Movement • Ford Foundation • Foreign Aid • Foreign Assistance Act • foreign policy • Funding • Gender • Gender and Development • global development • Globalization • global South • government agency • Grameen Bank • Group of 77 • Gunnar Myrdal • Hans Singer • Hunger • income • Inequality • Informal Sector • Institute for Policy Studies • Institute of Development Studies • Institution • International Bank for Reconstruction and Development • International Development • International Fund for Agricultural Development • International Labour Organization • International Monetary Fund • International Organization • International Taxation • International Women's Year • International Women’s Year • Investor • Jocelyn Olcott • Latin America • Legislation • Mahbub ul Haq • Making the Woman Worker • Marshall Plan • Marxism • Microcredit • Microfinance • Muhammad Yunus • national security • Neocolonialism • New International Economic Order • NGOs • Nick Cullather • NIEO • Non-governmental organization • north–south divide • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development • Orlando Patterson • Pamphlet • Peace Corps • Politics • Poverty • Poverty Capital • poverty reduction • Princeton University Press • private sector • Publicity • Redistribution of income and wealth • Robert McNamara • rural development • Sara Lorenzini • Self-Sufficiency • Small Business • Sorting Out the Mixed Economy • Supporter • Tanzania • Tax • The Hungry World • The New York Times • Think Tank • third world • trickle-down economics • Unemployment • UNICEF • United Nations Conference on Trade and Development • United Nations development programme • united nations environment programme • United States Agency for International Development • United States foreign aid • USAID • U.S. History • War on Poverty • Wealth • welfare • Woman • Women in Development • Women’s Empowerment • Women’s history • World Bank • World Bank Group • World Economy • Yunus Centre
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21997-4 / 0691219974
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21997-4 / 9780691219974