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PDF: LA PRIMA GUERRA MONDIALE E SECONDA GUERRA MONDIALE.pdfECONOMIA
PDF: ANALISI DI BILANCIO PER INDICI.pdfINGLESE
The Marshall Plan (for European Recovery Program) was the primary plan of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger foundation for the allied countries of Europe, and repelling communism after World War II. The initiative takes the name from Secretary of State George Marshall and was largely managed by State Department officials, especially William L. Clayton and George F. Kennan.
The reconstruction plan developed at a meeting of the participating European states was established on July 12, 1947. The Marshall Plan offered the same aid to the USSR and its allies. During this period some USD 13 billion in economic and technical assistance were given to help the recovery of the European countries that had joined in the Organization for European Economic Co-operation.
By the time the plan had come to completion, the economy of every participant state, with the exception of Germany, had grown well past pre-war levels. Over the next two decades, many regions of Western Europe would enjoy growth and prosperity of the economy.
Long after the war World War II, inspired to Marshall Plan there was an expansion of microcredit to help countries after the disaster in Bangladesh.
Muhammed Yunus in 1976 set up the Grameen Bank, in Bangladesh.
Microcredit is the grating by banks of small loans to poor people, usually in Third World countries, to help them to run a business. The debtors are people who have no capital, nobody to guarantee the loan and often no job.
His typical clients are self-employ people working from home. Most of them are women.
In the 1997, after that Yunus began experimenting with loans to women in poor South Asian Villages, more individual representing 1500 organization and 137 countries, gathered at the Microcredit Summit in Washington DC.
Headlined by Heads of State, the Summit (vertice) launched (ha lanciato) a campaign to reach 100 million of the World’s poorest family. The significance of the Summit was to bring a certain importance to the goal (obbiettivo) of poverty alleviation trough Microcredit and to create an institution whose mission was to promote this goal at the global level.
The success of Microcredit of the Grameen Bank has led to the setting up of thousands of other similar microfinance (macrofainans) istituion (MFIs) and the expansion of microcredit into microfinance.
Microfinance institution have opened in poor areas of United State.
Muhammed Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
Edited by ´manu - 30/5/2015, 18:05
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