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Opinion: Too Many 'Marshall Plans'

By Lionel BeehnerFeb 8th 2010 – 5:42AM
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(Feb. 8) – It has become fashionable in foreign policy circles to call for a "Marshall Plan" to fix Haiti. The Haitian ambassador to the United States penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal calling for one. Ditto economist R. Glenn Hubbard in the Financial Times, as well as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the...

Background on Marshall Plan

The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet communism.

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