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    The Contemporary World: General Education - 3

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    The document discusses the terms Global South and Third World. It explains that the Brandt Line from the 1980s attempted to show growing income inequality between rich and poor countries, but is no longer valid as some strong economies now lie below it. The term Global South emerged to encourage cooperation among Southern Hemisphere countries on political, economic and social issues. While Third World was coined in 1952 to differentiate poor countries from the wealthy First World and communist Second World, Global South now aims to avoid the stigma associated with Third World and recognizes developing countries' potential to develop.

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    The document discusses the terms Global South and Third World. It explains that the Brandt Line from the 1980s attempted to show growing income inequality between rich and poor countries, but is no longer valid as some strong economies now lie below it. The term Global South emerged to encourage cooperation among Southern Hemisphere countries on political, economic and social issues. While Third World was coined in 1952 to differentiate poor countries from the wealthy First World and communist Second World, Global South now aims to avoid the stigma associated with Third World and recognizes developing countries' potential to develop.

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    The document discusses the terms Global South and Third World. It explains that the Brandt Line from the 1980s attempted to show growing income inequality between rich and poor countries, but is no longer valid as some strong economies now lie below it. The term Global South emerged to encourage cooperation among Southern Hemisphere countries on political, economic and social issues. While Third World was coined in 1952 to differentiate poor countries from the wealthy First World and communist Second World, Global South now aims to avoid the stigma associated with Third World and recognizes developing countries' potential to develop.

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    GENERAL EDUCATIO N - 3

    THE CO NTEMPO RARY


    WO RLD
    The Brandt Line proposed by Willy Brandt in
    1980’s attempted to show growing income
    inequality between countries. Above the line are
    the rich countries, whereas below line are the poor
    countries. However, this theory is no longer
    considered as valid since in today’s context some
    of the world’s strongest economies lie below the
    Brandt line.
    Global South vs The Third World
    The emergence of the term Global South is in
    part to aid countries in the Southern Hemisphere to
    work in collaboration on political, economic,
    social, environmental, cultural and technical issues.
    This is called a South-South Cooperation (SSC).
    “A political and economical term referring to the
    long term goal of pursuing world economic
    changes that mutually benefits countries in the
    Global South and lead to greater solidarity among
    the disadvantage in the world system” (Gray, 2016)
    Global South was first used in 1969 in a
    Contemporary political sense and continued to gain
    appeal throughout the second half of the 20th Century.
    It was French Demographer, anthropologies and
    economic historian Alfred Sauvy (1898-1990) who
    coined the term “the Third World” in 1952,
    comparing it with Third Estate, a concept that
    emerged during the French Revolution which refers
    to the French population.
    The term was accepted because it clearly
    differentiated the poor countries from the First
    World where countries are wealthy, and to Second
    World (Communist States) though not so wealthy
    but characterized by greater order, higher income,
    and longer expectances (Butler, 2007).
    There growth and developed of the developing
    countries in the 1970’s was slowing. Developed
    countries were becoming dependent on the Third
    World for energy due to the decline of US oil
    reserves. These likely increase the economic power
    of the Third World.
    It was at this time that the term North and South
    were firstly widely used in lieu of the long
    standing geographical and cultural partition of the
    East and West. The Global South was merged to
    the Third World in order to avoid the stigma
    brought about by the form “Third World” as being
    very poor and thus created a new order (Butler,
    2007).
    To explain further, Third World countries are
    experiencing deep poverty, inequality, and
    underdevelopment. They are the countries at the
    periphery that produce mainly agrarian and mineral
    raw materials for industrialized states. In deeper
    sense, the developing countries originally belong
    to the Global South still has a chance to become a
    developed country.

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