 Post-war Reconstruction and Marshall PlanChapter 2 in A Monetary and Economic History of France since 1944, 2026, pp 9-31 from Springer Abstract: Abstract In 1945, France was in ruins. Reconstructing the country posed a major logistical challenge, a situation compounded by elevated inflation and a public debt that reached 170% of gross domestic product. A formal framework was established for the country’s reconstruction through the creation on January 3, 1946, of the General Planning Commission. It defined a four-year plan aimed at modernizing the country and increasing its production capacity and productivity. The plan was funded above all by the Marshall Plan. France received 20% of the total. As the 1946 Monnet Plan was consistent with the objectives of the Marshall Plan, the entire envelope earmarked for France was used: 22% of the total went to Electricity of France, 13% to Coal Mining of France, and 11% to the national railway company SNCF. The aim of France’s four-year plan was to invent and build the France of tomorrow, not to rebuild the France of yesterday, destroyed by the war. At the end of the war, the French colonial empire was more than seven times the size of France and spanned five continents. The end of the Second World War marked the start of decolonization. Date: 2026 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:conchp:978-3-032-17596-0_2 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-17596-0_2 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Contributions to Economics from Springer |
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