Monday, 9 December 2013

Morning blog post


3rd world country

What is a third world country? A third world country is a term used by the European Commission to define any country of the world that is not one of the 28 EU. Third world country sometimes refers to a country that is poor, less technologically advanced with high rates of illiteracy, disease and unstable governments. It usually describes most of the developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Examples of 3rd world countries:
- all countries in North, Central and South America;- all countries in Africa;- all countries in Asia;- all countries in Oceania;- the Eastern Balkan Countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzgovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro)- Turkey- Belarus- Moldova- Ukrain- Russia- Switzerland

New Zealand is a first world country.





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