1) Country classification 2) Developing countries 3) Economic development 4) Emergent countries 5) Underdeveloped countries 6) Undeveloped countries 7) Unindustrialized
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The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO (with the United States, Western European nations and their allies representing the First World), or the Communist Bloc (with the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and their allies representing the Second World). This terminology provided a way o...
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Refers to all less developed countries as a group. Term originated during the Cold War, when the 'first world' was the developed capitalist countries and the 'second world' was the communist countries, although these terms were seldom used.
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A phrase which means any of the developing or poorer countries from Africa, Asia and South America.
Example: Bangladesh is said to be a Third World country.
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(from the article `Christianity`) Second, `Third World theologies` often provoked angry debate. The underlying questions concerned the identification of what was essentially Christian ... Collective poverty is relatively general and lasting in much of Asia, the Middle East, most of Africa, and large parts of South America and ...
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The less developed societies, in which industrial production is either virtually non-existent or only developed to a limited degree. The majority of the world`s population live in Third World countries.
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Former term used to describe countries of the
developing world, now considered derogatory. The classifications First (western industrialized free-market), Second (eastern Communist bloc), and...
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Refers to poor, underdeveloped nations in South Africa, Asia and South America
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is a term used since the 1940s to describe developing countries. These were countries that depended for over 70% of their economy on primary production - agriculture or provision of raw materials, as opposed to manufacturing and servicing industries. The First World were those governed by markets, the Second World being the centrally plan...
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n] - underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively
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noun underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively
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Former term used to describe countries of the developing world, now considered derogatory. The classifications First (western industrialized free-market), Second (eastern Communist bloc), and Third (developing or non-aligned) worlds arose during the Cold War, but began to lose their political meaning as the Cold War came to an end in the la...
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