“In order to have economic growth, poor countries need market economies, private property rights, rule of law and democratic institutions.” —Walter Williams, syndicated columnist “Development must take the people not as they...

As the countries of the Third World struggle with population growth, poverty, famines, and wars, their residents are discovering the environmental effects of these problems, in the form of increasing air, water, and land pollution. Pollution is...

The term Third World was first used by the French demographer, Alfred Sauvy, in August 1952, to describe the new nation-states, mostly in Asia and Africa, which had begun to emerge at the end of the Second World War (e.g. Sri Lanka and India) but which...

Morgan’s classification of relationship terminologies included only two types: †‘descriptive’ and †‘classificatory’. ‘Descriptive’ terminologies were defined as those which distinguish direct...

The Third World is most easily defined negatively, in that it consists of those countries not in the First World or Second World. The First World consists of the leading Western industrialized countries of Europe, North America, Japan and the old...

The unofficial but common term "Third World" refers to the world's less wealthy and less developed countries. In the decades after World War II, the term was developed in recognition of the fact that these countries were emerging...

Developing economies apart from oil producers, with low per capita incomes, large agricultural sectors and a shortage of most kinds of capital. Some have defined the Third World as those countries in receipt of FOREIGN AID. See also: First World;...

Political designation originally used (1963) to describe those states not part of the first world—the capitalist, economically developed states led by the U.S.—or the second world—the communist states led by the Soviet Union. The...

The Third World is a term used, along with First World and Second World, to broadly categorise the nations of the Earth to three social, political, and economic divisions. It is also known in some academic contexts as the Global...