A War on Global PovertyA 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 modernisation programmes to the rise of microcredit, Joanne Meyerowitz looks beyond familiar histories of development and explains why antipoverty programmes increasingly focused on women as the deserving poor. When the United States joined the war on global poverty, economists, policymakers, and