A War on Global Poverty

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A War on Global Poverty is written by Joanne Meyerowitz and published by Princeton University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0691250286 (ISBN 10) and 9780691250281 (ISBN 13).

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 “women in development” movement, they positioned women as economic actors who could help lift families and nations out of destitution--Back cover.