A War on Global Poverty - by Joanne Meyerowitz

The book "A War on Global Poverty" provides a comprehensive account of US involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s.

The author, Joanne Meyerowitz, offers a fresh perspective on the history of development, highlighting why antipoverty programs increasingly focused on women as the deserving poor.

The book explores how economists, policymakers, and activists rejected the notion that economic growth would trickle down to the poor and proposed programs to redress inequities between and within nations.

Meyerowitz also examines how the war on global poverty turned decisively toward market-based projects in the private sector, positioning women as entrepreneurs and imagining microcredit as a grassroots solution.

The book provides valuable insights into why antipoverty programs have increasingly focused on women and offers a comprehensive understanding of the complex history of development.