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S: http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/ben2417s/EUAID2.htm (last access: 25 April 2013); http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world.htm (last access: 2 September 2014).
N: 1. Countries of the Third World. The term Third World was originally coined in times of the Cold War to distinguish those nations that are neither aligned with the West (NATO) nor with the East, the Communist bloc. Today the term is often used to describe the developing countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania.
Many poorer nations adopted the term to describe themselves.
2. Definition of Third World: A phrase commonly used to describe a developing nation, but actually started as term used to describe a country’s allegiance. A Third World country is a country whose views are not aligned with NATO and capitalism or the Soviet Union and communism. The use of the term Third World started during the Cold War and was used to identify which of three categories the countries of the world aligned with. The First World meant that you aligned withe NATO and capitalism, and the Second World meant you supported Communism and the Soviet Union.
S: 1. http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world.htm (last access: 2 September 2014). 2. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/third-world.asp (last access: 2 September 2014).
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