Due to an anachronism inherited from the days of the Soviet Union, Taiwan is classified as 'Third World' for customs purposes.
Developmentalists believe that national autonomy for 'Third World' countries can be achieved and maintained through the utilization of external resources by those countries in a capitalist system.
"Modalism - A 'Third World'".
Allen Carey-Webb: "Heart of Darkness, Tarzan, and the 'Third World'.
Meanwhile, while not officially sanctioning the use of force against Iraq, China's curry-favouring bolstered its future bid for 'Third World' leadership.
Many UN members from 'Third World' nations, now say they saw January 15 as a diplomatic rather than military deadline.
'Third World' will, therefore, be used in this book without (further) apology, or scare quotes, as a positive term of radical critique even if it also necessarily signals its negative sense of economic dependency and exploitation.
He asserted the autonomy of 'Third World' states, and pressed for a fairer global economic structure.
I don't understand today, anymore than I did then, why Third World needed to hire me in the first place.
A Zimbabwean women who spoke at that conference said that the conference should be renamed 'Third World, No Hope' , and that was her view of the different situation.