ANTH 001 Lecture Notes - Eastern Bloc, Demography, World Trade Organization
Document Summary
Political developments and political institutions in the developing world. Most of africa, asia, latin america, the middle east, and some eastern. Many different terms of expressions are used but all are problematic. Developed by french demographer alfred sauvy in 1952 (tiers monde) Alfred sauvy: this third world ignored, exploited, despired like the third estate also wants to be something . Third world countries that remained non-aligned with either nato or the communist bloc. Countries within third world are very different, its diverse, very difficult to compare somalia and brazil, they are compare somalia and brazil, they are different but put into this basket of third world which is not accurate. Backwardness , insult to other countries, judging from the first world, not the best term to use. Western countries that is often used to indicate advancement, economic advancement, it"s a geographical term but has a deeper meaning. Rest of the world = backward and static.
