Half a Century of International Development

William Ryrie

Chapter 1 in First World, Third World, 1999, pp 1-34 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The phrase the ‘Third World’ was invented in the early 1950s, by the French sociologist Alfred Sauvy. The world, as he observed it in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, was divided into two great blocs, — the capitalist, democratic west and the communist east, the First and Second Worlds. But this classification was incomplete — it did not encompass the whole of mankind. There were also the poorer, backward countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America who were thus the Third World or ‘Tiers Monde’, the French archaic usage echoing the name of the third house of the parliament of the early days of the French Revolution, the Tiers Etat.

Keywords: International Development; Poor Country; Donor Country; Colonial Power; Official Development Assistance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230596818_1

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