The United Nations Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in June of 1992, illuminated some major differences among the nations of the world, differences that are summarized in the terms North and South. The latter term refers to nations of the...

The North-South Divide[1] is the socio-economic and political division that exists between the wealthy developed countries, known collectively as "the North", and the poorer developing countries (least developed countries), or "the South."[2] Although...

The North-South divide in the United Kingdom is narrowing and is predicted to close further by 2000, according to a report yesterday from the market analysts Mintel. But by then, London will still have an income per head 20 per cent above the national...

Government plans to further improve public health have been laid out in a new report, released alongside a snapshot profile of health in England Public health minister Caroline Flint unveiled new plans for improving health and tackling health inequalities in England. The report,...

A new breed of characters has replaced the old communist heroes on Vietnam's big screens: hustlers and dancing girls, drug dealers and cross-dressers.But perhaps the most startling character of all is Tai, a soldier from the former South Vietnamese army. In a nation where anti-communist...

For more than four years, a 12-mile-wide band of land has split this once-thriving West African country in two, creating a north-south divide that symbolized Ivory Coast's inability to recover from a civil war even as fighting subsided.Now the French and U.N. peacekeepers who patrol...