Gordon Brown has called for a modern-day Marshall Plan to end poverty in the developing world.

Speaking in Washington on Monday, the chancellor argued that there is a need to make money available for education, health and poverty to meet United National goals on education, health and poverty by 2015, in return for a commitment by the developing world to pursue "corruption-free" policies.

Brown said: "America's post-Second World War achievement in what we now call the Marshall Plan should be our inspiration in this post-cold war world, not just for the reconstruction of Afghanistan but for the entire developing world."

The chancellor's comments were part of a warning to American isolationists, saying that, "Our interdependence means that what happens to the poorest citizen in the poorest country can directly affect the richest citizen in the richest country."

He added, "Like our predecessors, we understand that national safety and global reconstruction are inextricably linked. Like them we see the need for a new economic leadership - a comprehensive plan that goes beyond temporary relief to wholesale economic and social development."

Brown also said that giving aid to the developing world was not about giving charity. He said that there were conditions which the developing world had to fulfil to gain aid.

He said that the obligations of the developing countries were "to end corruption, put in place stable economic policies, to invite investment, to meet their commitment to community ownership of their poverty reduction strategies and to ensure resources go to fighting poverty including education and health".

He said that such moves were vital in order to consolidate globalisation.

"In the spirit of Marshall we shall not retreat from globalisation. Rather, we will advance social justice on a global scale as today's global alliance for prosperity. So as this month we together work to win the war against terrorism we must also seize this moment of opportunity to win the peace," he said.

The chancellor used the opportunity to further criticise the anti-globalisation campaigners.

"Managed wisely globalisation can lift millions out of deprivation and become the high road to a more just and inclusive global economy. Our answer to anti-globalisation campaigners is that we shall not retreat from globalisation."

The chancellor has repeated calls for a $50 billion fund to meet the UN's so-called millennium goals by 2015.

Brown had earlier used a meeting with European Union finance ministers at the Laeken summit last week to seek their support for the move.