During the 1970s the anti-poverty approach was adopted by international agencies
such as the World Bank and ILO as well as by many countries as part of their
national programs (Razavi and Miller, ibid.).
In its implementation, the anti-poverty approach concentrated on programs which were designed to increase women's
employment and income-generation (i.e. skill training) as well as their access to
productive resources (i.e. credit) (Buvinic, 1986: 659).