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 | | A term once commonly used to designate the countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and elsewhere that were economically less developed. |
 | | The phrase is attributed to French analyst Alfred Sauvy, who in 1952 used tiers mondeto describe neutral countries in the cold war. |
 | | Sauvy used the older tiers, instead of the more modern troisieme, to allude to the pre-Revolutionary (1789) "third estate" (tiers,tat), that is, the underprivileged class, the commoners. |
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