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Q: What do you understand by Third world?
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| 1 | The economist and demographer Alfred Sauvy, in an article published in the French magazine Lobservateur, August 14, 1952, coined the term Third World in referring to countries currently called either “developing” or “under-developed”, especially in Latin America, Africa, Oceania, and Asia, that were unaligned with either the Communist Soviet bloc or the Capitalist NATO bloc during the Cold War (1945—1989). Today. Third World ‘is synonymous with all countries in the developing world, regardless of their political status. Third World was a reference to the Tiers Estat, the (Third Estate), the commoners of France before and during the French Revolution — opposed to the priests and nobles who composed the First Estate and the Second Estate. Like the third estate, wrote Sauvy. the Third World has nothing. and “wants to be something”. implying that the Third World is exploited and that its destiny is revolutionary. Moreover, it conveyed the second concept of political nonalignment with neither the industrialized Capitalist bloc nor the industrialized Communist bloc. The problematic definition of”The Third World” In academic circles, the countries of the Third World are known as the “Global South”, the “developing countries”, and the “under-developed countries”; and are called, by economic development workers, the “Two-thirds World” and “The South”. Some developers disapprove of the “developing countries” term, because it implies that industrialization is the only progressive way. | |
| 2 | The economically under-developed countries of Africa, Asia, Americas, and Oceania considered as an entity with common characteristics, such as poverty, uncontrolled high birthrates. and economic dependence upon the advanced countries tended to be former European colonies. After World War II. the capitalist Western and the communist Eastern blocs fought to expand their spheres of influence to the Third World. The military and intelligence services of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. worked secretly and publicly to influence Third World governments, with relative success. The term Third World became popular usage during the Cold War when many poor nations adopted it in describing themselves as unaligned with neither N.A.T.O. nor the U.S.S.R., but instead composed an unaligned Third World. In that context, the First World denoted the U.S. and its anti—Communist allies, concomitantly, Second World denoted the “Eastern Bloc” — the U.S.S.R. and its communist and socialist allies. Originally, the Third World bloc comprised the countries of Yugoslavia, India, and Egypt. Many believed they could successfully court the Communist and Capitalist blocs into economic partnerships without directly falling into the respective sphere of influence, Fearing they would |
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