The Global Marshall Plan includes the following five core goals:
* implementation of the globally agreed upon UN Millennium Goals by 2015
* raising of an additional 100 billion US$ a year required to achieve the Millennium Goals, to enhance worldwide development
* fair and competitively neutral raising of these necessary resources, also by burdening global transactions
* gradually establish a worldwide Eco-Social Market Economy with an improved global policy framework through the interlinking of established rules and agreed upon standards for economic, environmental and social issues (WTO, ILO and UNEP standards)
* new forms of appropriation of funds directed to the grassroots level, while at the same time fighting corruption
Why do we need a Global Marshall Plan?
Because today’s global situation is scandalous, and because the current conditions of globalization produce the complete opposite of what is constantly demanded in rosy speeches. Poverty, the north south divide, migration, terror, wars, cultural conflicts, and environmental catastrophes are all problems, which can no longer be resolved nationally under the conditions of a widely unregulated globalization process. Therefore, we need an improved and binding global framework for the world economy, that brings economy into harmony with society, culture, and environment.
Millennium Development Goals and Worldwide Eco-Social Market Economy
The Global Marshall Plan considers the realization of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, which were signed by 189 nations in 2000, to be an important first step. The following goals should be achieved by 2015:
The Millennium Development Goals
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development
via Global Marshall Plan Initiative.