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Half a Century of International Development

In: First World, Third World

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  • William Ryrie

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The phrase the ‘Third World’ was invented in the early 1950s, by the French sociologist Alfred Sauvy. The world, as he observed it in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, was divided into two great blocs, — the capitalist, democratic west and the communist east, the First and Second Worlds. But this classification was incomplete — it did not encompass the whole of mankind. There were also the poorer, backward countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America who were thus the Third World or ‘Tiers Monde’, the French archaic usage echoing the name of the third house of the parliament of the early days of the French Revolution, the Tiers Etat.

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  • William Ryrie, 1999. "Half a Century of International Development," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: First World, Third World, edition 0, chapter 1, pages 1-34, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59681-8_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230596818_1
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