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Third World is a term originally used to distinguish those nations that neither aligned with the West nor with the East during the Cold War. These countries are ... known as the Global South, developing countries, and least developed countries in academic circles. Development workers also call them the two-thirds world and The South. Some dislike the term developing countries as it implies that industrialisation is the only way forward, while they believe it is not necessarily the most beneficial.
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In Third World countries, children suffer from many different infections, often having some kind of infection for 200 days of the year. With each infection, as protein is broken down and nitrogen lost, the nitrogen deficit grows, making it more and more difficult for the body to rebuild the amino acids needed for new protein formation. A slowing of the children’s growth rate and normal development is one result.
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The Third World having economies distorted by their dependence on the export of primary products to the developed countries in return for finished products. After liberation from colonial rule in the 1950s - 70s, many Third World nations faced high rates of illiteracy, disease, population growth and unstable governments. This was particularly true of Africa, where nation-states were artificially carved by European colonial powers who did not divide up based on social-cultural sensitivities.
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The countries of the Third World, containing some two thirds of the world’s population, are located in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Politically, they are generally non-aligned nations. Some are moving out of their previous situation and are on the verge of joining the ranks of industrialized countries. Others, with poor economies facing particularly acute difficulties in development, are at times lumped together as forming a “fourth world”.
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The countries of the Third World, containing some two-thirds of the world's population, are located in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Politically, they are generally nonaligned (see Nonaligned Movement). Some are moving out of their previous situation and may soon join the ranks of industrialized countries. Others, with economies considered intrinsically incapable of development, are at times lumped together as forming a “fourth world.”
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Without the price system to guide them, Third World nations have attempted to develop by simply building the same type of enterprises that flourish in more advanced countries. Steel plants, aluminum factories, and oil refineries funded with aid money dot the Third World, despite the fact that the markets for these products are already saturated. Because they cannot hope to compete with more established firms, these aid projects drain skilled labor and other resources away from the private sector with no corresponding benefits.[22]
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