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	Third World definition
		The underdevelopment of the third world is marked by a number of common traits; distorted and highly dependent economies devoted to producing primary products for the developed world and to provide markets for their finished goods; traditional, rural social structures; high population growth; and widespread poverty.
		Even after decolonization (in the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's, the economies of the third world developed slowly, or not at all, owing largely to the deterioration of the "terms of trade"-the relation between the cost of the goods a nation must import from abroad and its income from the exports it sends to foreign countries.
		In 1980, the earth's population was estimated at 4.4 billion, 72 percent of it in the third world, and it seemed likely to reach 6.2 billion, 80 percent of it in the third world, at the close of the century.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /General/ThirdWorld_def.html (2614 words)

	Developed country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A developed country is a nation that enjoys a relatively high standard of living through a strong high-technology diversified economy.
		In international trade statistics, the Southern African Customs Union is also treated as a developed region and Israel as a developed country; and countries of eastern Europe and the former U.S.S.R. countries in Europe are not included under either developed or developing regions.
		Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau are considered developed by some organizations; however, the People's Republic of China, a developing country, claims the land of the first, and exercises sovereignty over the latter two.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Developed_world (789 words)

	Population Resource Center
		World population exceeded 6.1 billion individuals in 2001, and is growing at about 1.3 percent annually.
		In 2001, 30 percent of the world’s population was between the ages of 15 and 24.
		Further, a growing global population and the increasing consumption rates of the developed world are placing unprecedented stress on the environment and social fabrics around the world.
	www.prcdc.org /summaries/worldpop/worldpop.html (1738 words)

	Developed world’s policies create discrimination -DAWN - National; July 30, 2003
		The rich countries are directly or indirectly putting pressures on the developing world to accept the modalities, favourable for the developed countries.
		The developing counties have a chance at the meeting to rebalance the agreement in favour of the developing countries in order to seek more rights and needs of the poor communities during the negotiations.
		He further said due to the IMF adjustment programme, the developing countries, including Pakistan, were made bound to reduce the agriculture subsidies while the same was being provided by the developed countries.
	www.dawn.com /2003/07/30/nat1.htm (428 words)

	World Population Profile: 1996 -- Highlights
		Developing countries of Asia will contribute 176 million persons to world population increase during the next 4 years, with a fourth of this increase, or 44 million persons, to be added in China.
		The world community adopted an agenda for action at the ICPD and the regional preparatory conferences which emphasizes demographic goals, economic growth within the context of sustainable development, improved access to reproductive health care, and the empowerment of women.
		Projections of the Bureau of the Census indicate that only 50 to 60 percent of the developing nations are likely to achieve the ICPD mortality reduction goals set for the year 2015 in spite of ongoing improvements in child survivorship in the developing world.
	www.census.gov /ipc/www/wphilite.html (1163 words)

	Encyclopedia: Developed world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A developed country is a country that has achieved (currently or historically) a high degree of industrialization, and which enjoys the higher standards of living which wealth and technology make possible.
		Observers often see strong correlations between countries with high economic development and their possessing robust democratic institutions or free market economies, though in neither case is the correlation absolute or uncontroversial.
		Other terms sometimes used to describe the developed/developing country dichotomy are first world/third world (the term second world was during the Cold War reserved for communist states,) North/South, or industrialized countries/non-industrialized countries.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Developed-world (334 words)

	World Population Profile: 1998 -- Highlights
		World population has grown even more rapidly during the present century, with the greatest gains occurring in the post-World War II period, and stands at over three times its size in 1900 -- some 5.9 billion people -- today.
		However, substantial gaps exist, and will continue to exist, between the world's more developed and less developed regions in numbers of children born to a woman, on average, and in the risks of dying at every age faced by those children.
		However, disparities in conditions distinguishing today's less developed and more developed countries are also reflected in the portion of all deaths that occur in infancy.
	www.census.gov /ipc/www/wp98001.html (1377 words)

	The World Future Society welcomes you to the World FutureGuide Mass Migration Trends by Ken Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Developing world family members are separated from each other for long periods of time while one member works in a developed country (e.g., construction workers from El Salvador and maids and nannies from the Philippines working in the US).
		Developed world countries resort to a variety of measures to find new labor sources including crash robotics development programs, re-training and mandatory re-employment of older workers, and raising the social security eligibility age to 75.
		Thus the developed world faces an unprecedented labor shortage coupled with the burden of caring for a vastly increased elderly population.
	www.wfs.org /wfg/harris.htm (975 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : In interest of developed world
		By the end of last year, the developed countries, chiefly led by the US, created a stalemate in the negotiations on the low-cost access of developing countries to vital drugs, overriding patent and intellectual property considerations.
		Thus, today, free trade in goods has been expanded to cover hitherto exclusive domains of the government where developed nations are using all their levers of unequal power, at the behest of their corporations, to gain access to developing countries.
		As Berkeley economist Prof Bradford de Long puts it, there is no recognition that the successful economic and organisational development of the world is essential for the long-run national security of even the strongest nation in the industrial core.
	www.blonnet.com /2003/04/14/stories/2003041400160800.htm (1529 words)

	News Release 021204
		The developed IC is a multiplexer circuit that converts a lower bit-rate parallel signal into a high speed serial signal by time division multiplexing, and the matching demultiplexer that converts the high speed serial signal to the lower bit-rate parallel signal.
		Develop the device integration technology that can uniformly produce Indium Phosphide High Electron Mobility Transistors with 200 GHz class current gain cut-off frequency (*6) on one semiconductor chip.
		NTT Photonics Laboratories developed an extremely regular crystal growth technology that realizes the epitaxial structure with a high degree of accuracy (7) including an InP gate recess etch stopper layer (8), and sub-100 nanometer micro gate fabrication technology.
	www.ntt.co.jp /news/news02e/0212/021204.html (1325 words)

	Some Thoughts On Living In The Less Developed World: Emerging Markets ~ by Jurgen Klemann
		As living in the less developed world is not necessarily the same as living in Gringolandia and Western Europe, it may be worth chatting a little about living in the less developed world.
		Nowhere in the developed world is the gap between rich and poor as fast growing as in New Zealand, according to some findings by the OECD.
		In a nutshell, in case you are toying with the idea of relocating to a less developed country widespread poverty there does not necessarily have to affect your quality of life.
	www.escapeartist.com /efam/59/Living_Developing_World.html (2315 words)

	FT.com / Reports - THE DEVELOPED WORLD: Far from defeated
		While the spotlight on the ravaging effect of Aids has switched to the emerging markets and the developing world – most notably Africa – the epidemic is far from defeated in the rich countries of western Europe and the US.
		In the face of such trends, the most important public health message across the developed world is the need to help with strengthened screening those who are not aware of their status, and who therefore risk spreading infection and seeking treatment only when Aids is well advanced.
		The developed world’s challenges from Aids may be numerically smaller than those of Africa, but they too cannot be ignored in efforts to fight new infection.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/13f817da-7e15-11db-84bb-0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=727810ac-7ef7-11db-b193-0000779e2340.html (750 words)

	Asia-Pacific Leads Developed World Markets in September, Says S&P
		World's Leading Index Provider Releases September Global Stock Market Review NEW YORK, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Asia-Pacific region led developed world equity markets to a strong September, as the S&P/Citigroup Developed World Index posted a 2.73% gain for the month, Standard & Poor's, the world's leading index provider, announced today.
		Even with all developed world regions posting positive returns in September, Asia-Pacific was far and away the best performer with an 8.95% return for the month.
		With approximately 6,300 employees located in 20 countries and markets, Standard & Poor's is an essential part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for more than 140 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-10-2005/0004164980&EDATE= (431 words)

	Reason
		New, liberalized trade rules could have increased world income by $230 billion annually and, according to a recent study by the Center for Global Development, could have lifted 200 million of the poor in developing countries out of poverty.
		The developing countries were essentially demanding that the European Union, the United States and other rich countries totally eliminate their domestic agriculture subsidies and export subsidies.
		First, the collapse means that protected industries and sectors all over the world will still get their subsidies and still overcharge consumers for many more years to come.
	www.reason.com /rb/rb091503.shtml (630 words)

	Instructional Software Developed by World Learning Receives U.N. World Summit Award - World Learning News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This interactive teaching tool was developed to teach 1st through 3rd graders about the Mayan language and culture through an entertaining and interactive environment.
		According to Aguare, in addition to information technology improving Mayan children's learning, their self-esteem will improve as well, because the development and benefits of modern technology are generally associated with western culture, and therefore relevant to progress.
		The World Summit Award was established within the framework of the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to showcase the best multimedia content from around the world.
	www.worldlearning.org /wlid/news/world_summit_award.html (595 words)

	Literacy standards in the developed world - adults
		Young people in the UK less well qualified for the world of work: The survey reveals that young people in Britain are less well qualified for the world of work than their counterparts in other industrialised countries.
		The data is drawn from 20 countries over three cycles of data collection, and provides the world's first reliable and comparable estimates of the levels and distribution of literacy skills in the adult population.
		The latest Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study on 16 to 65-year-olds, to be released in June 2000, finds that 22% of the population in England and Wales is functionally illiterate compared to 25% in Ireland and 20% in France.
	www.literacytrust.org.uk /Database/internat.html (2667 words)

	AllRefer.com - China - Relations with the Developed World \| Chinese Information Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Because most of the developed world, with the exception of Japan, is fairly distant from China and is aligned formally or informally with either the Soviet Union or the United States, China's relations with the developed world often have been subordinate to its relations with the superpowers.
		The developed nations have been important to China for several reasons: as sources of diplomatic recognition, as alternative sources of trade and technology to reduce reliance on one or the other superpower, and as part of China's security calculations.
		In the 1980s China stressed the role of developed nations in ensuring peace in an increasingly multipolar world.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/china/china338.html (453 words)

	The Famine Myth: Starvation in Africa: Obeisity rising in the developed world. GlobalAware: alternative thinking in the ...
		The Famine Myth: Starvation in Africa: Obeisity rising in the developed world.
		These are the three famine myths – not enough food, too many people, bad weather – that permit famine to strike again and again in the developing world with not so much as a peep of outrage from us, the increasingly obese developed world.
		Since we began to donate and loan money to the developing world, there has been a net flow of value (money and goods) to the north – much of the money came our way in arms sales to support Cold War hostilities on southern soil and to keep pro-Western or pro-Soviet strongmen in power.
	www.globalaware.org /Artlicles_eng/Famine_intro.htm (1341 words)

	British Medical Journal: AIDS vaccine research focuses on subtypes in developed world - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The World Development Report 2000/2001, released by the World Bank this month, says that progress towards a vaccine has been slow, partly because of the lack of a financial incentive.
		Only about $10-25m is spent annually on developing a vaccine for the virus subtypes and health systems of developing countries, says the report.
		In contrast, some $2bn is spent annually on research and development for AIDS treatment for three million people with HIV infection and AIDS in the developed world.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0999/is_7264_321/ai_66449649 (356 words)

	Developed world is robbing Africa of health staff: Health of nations needs more than health professionals -- Hassen 331 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Developed world is robbing Africa of health staff: Health of nations needs more than health professionals -- Hassen 331 (7507): 49 -- BMJ
		Developed world is robbing Africa of health staff
		world suffers from a dearth of health professionals.
	bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/extract/331/7507/49 (168 words)

	Population and Development Review \| Abstracts \| September 2002, Vol. 28, No. 3
		This article examines recent trends and patterns in fertility in the developed world with particular emphasis on the effects and implications of changes in the timing of childbearing.
		The authors present a brief discussion of the origin of the notion of life span, discuss its relevance and importance in light of recent developments in the emerging field of the biodemography of aging, and explore the theoretical and biological forces that influence the duration of life of sexually reproducing species.
		Karen Oppenheim Mason, Director, Gender and Development, The World Bank, Washington, DC On the basis of research on paired Muslim and non-Muslim communities selected in India, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, the authors test the hypothesis that greater observed Muslim pronatalism can be explained by less power or lower autonomy among Muslim women.
	www.popcouncil.org /publications/pdr/vol28_3.html (1760 words)

	SABCnews.com - south_africa/health
		Health ministers from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and representatives from China, India, Indonesia and the US called for the international community to agree on a concrete programme of action that would realise the principles of the Rio Earth Summit, held 10 years ago.
		The declaration issues by the group said that while there had been improvements in life expectancy and declines in infant mortality, the world was not on track for achieving the targets it had set for itself 10 years ago at the Rio Summit.
		In light of this the group called on the international community to fullfil their commitment to allocating 0,7% of GDP to development aid and for the 20:20 principle to be applied, whereby 20% of development aid and 20% of the country's own budgets are allocated to social services.
	www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/health/0,2172,27253,00.html (357 words)

	[Ip-health] IPS: Developed World Cripples Hope of Global Fund on AIDS
		Developed World Cripples Hope of Global Fund on AIDS Analysis - By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Oct 17 (IPS) - A defining moment to help millions infected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic appears to be aglow in cynicism, courtesy of the world's richest countries, rather than hope that is desperately needed at this hour.
		That was the impression created this week by governments of the developed world - including Britain, Japan and the United States - during a meeting in Thailand to discuss the amount of money to be spent next year to combat the pandemic in the developing world.
		By Thursday, the second day of a pivotal three-day meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria, it was clear that the already yawning gap between the verbal pledges made by the donor countries and the actual amount committed to the fund was destined to grow even further.
	lists.essential.org /pipermail/ip-health/2003-October/005455.html (1099 words)

	FT.com / World - Developed world 'will remain home to the rich'
		Developed world 'will remain home to the rich'
		The developed world will remain the breeding ground of the wealthy individuals of the future, according to research published today.
		Unveiling a prediction on the growth in the number of wealthy individuals over the next decade, Barclays Wealth and the Economist Intelligence Unit said the significance of the emerging markets in Brazil, Russia, India and China - the so-called Bric economies - as a source of the rich had been "overplayed".
	www.ft.com /cms/s/e807225c-833b-11db-a38a-0000779e2340.html (500 words)

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