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Nepal-US relations: Envoy Prof. Shridhar Khatri talks at a US Think Tank Luncheon meeting

Marshall Plan, formally European Recovery Program, (April 1948–December 1951), U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive. The United States feared that the poverty, unemployment, and dislocation of the post-World War II period were reinforcing the appeal of communist parties to voters in western Europe. On June 5, 1947, in an address at Harvard University, Secretary of State George C. Marshall advanced the idea of a European self-help prog...

It would be a grave error for the United States to waver in its commitment to democracy.

1.1 Historical background of development communication Development Communication involves the strategic use of communication for alleviation of social problems evolving societies ( wilkins, 1996). The term ‘development communication’ was coined in 1972 by Quebral, who defines the field as: ‘the art and science of human communication applied to the speedy transformation of a country and the mass of its people from poverty to a dynamic state of economic growth that makes possible greater social equality and the larger fulfilment of the human potential” (Quebral, Nora, 2001). Don’t was...