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01/07/2005:

"Labour's 'Marshall Plan' for Africa won't work"

Comparing the speech of George Marshall, promising emergency financial assistance from America to Europe after the Second World War, and that of Gordon Brown yesterday calling for more aid to Africa, is very instructive. It tells you a great deal about why Gen Marshall's plan was such a success, and why that advocated by the Chancellor and the Prime Minister is flawed. Marshall said America's objective "should be the revival of a working economy so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist", whereas Mr Brown's most revealing quote is "double the aid, halve the poverty".

Full Article : telegraph.co.uk