IMF Chief Calls for ‘Marshall Plan’ for Shattered Haiti
The head of the IMF has called for a major multilateral aid plan to rebuild the shattered Caribbean island of Haiti where the fight is still on to save lives after a devastating earthquake.
“My belief is that Haiti— which has been incredibly hit by different things—the food and fuel prices crisis, then the hurricane, then the earthquake—needs something that is big. Not only a piecemeal approach, but something which is much bigger to deal with the reconstruction of the country: some kind of a Marshall Plan that we need now to implement for Haiti,” said Dominique Strauss-Kahn in an interview in Hong Kong.
Haitian officials say the quake has killed up to 200,000 people, injured some 250,000, and made 1.5 million homeless.
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