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Marshall PlanA U.S. program to assist the economic recovery of certain European countries after World War II. Also called the European Recovery Program, it was initiated in 1947 and it dispersed over $12 billion before it was completed in 1952.Similar MatchesMarshall-Lerner conditionMarshall-Lerner conditionThe condition that sum of the elasticities of demand for exports and imports exceed one (in absolute value); that is, hX + hM > 1, where hX, hM are the demand elasticities for a country's exports and imports respectively, both defined to be positive for downward sloping demands. Under certain assumptions, this is the condition for a depreciation to improve the trade balance, for the exchange market to be stable, and for international barter exchange to be stable. Marshallian adjustmentMarshallian adjustmentA market adjustment mechanism in which quantity rises when demand price exceeds supply price and falls when supply price exceeds demand price. |
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