The international debt crisis of the Third World: causes and consequences for the world economy

1987 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-305
Author(s):  
Graham Bird
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Third World ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
International Debt ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Third World

Crisis: In the World Economy. André Gunder FrankCrisis: In the Third World. André Gunder Frank

1983 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 410-416
Author(s):  
Christopher Chase-Dunn
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Third World

Mercantile Legends and the World Economy: Dangerous Imports from the Third World

1989 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Gary Alan Fine
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Third World

The third world and the CMEA Group in the world economy of raw and basic materials

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 685-700
Author(s):  
Bálint Balkay
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Third World

From global to local and back: the ‘Third World’ concept and the new radical left in France

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Kalter
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Third World ◽  
Global Dynamics ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
World Concept ◽  
Radical Left

AbstractIn the second half of the twentieth century, the transnational ‘Third World’ concept defined how people all over the globe perceived the world. This article explains the concept’s extraordinary traction by looking at the interplay of local uses and global contexts through which it emerged. Focusing on the particularly relevant setting of France, it examines the term’s invention in the context of the Cold War, development thinking, and decolonization. It then analyses the reviewPartisans(founded in 1961), which galvanized a new radical left in France and provided a platform for a communication about, but also with, the Third World. Finally, it shows how the association Cedetim (founded in 1967) addressed migrant workers in France as ‘the Third World at home’. In tracing the Third World’s local–global dynamics, this article suggests a praxis-oriented approach that goes beyond famous thinkers and texts and incorporates ‘lesser’ intellectuals and non-textual aspects into a global conceptual history in action.

The Deterioration of the Food Situation in the Third World and the Capitalist System

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-262
Author(s):  
Ernest Feder
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Third World ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Staple Foods ◽  
The Third World

Hunger and malnutrition are today associated with the capitalist system. The evidence points to a further deterioration of the food situation in the Third World in the foreseeable future, as a result of massive capital and technology transfers from the rich capitalist countries to the underdeveloped agricultures operated by transnational concerns or private investors, with the active support of development assistance agencies such as the World Bank. Contrary to the superficial predictions of the World Bank, for example, poverty is bound to increase and the purchasing power of the masses must decline. Particular attention must be paid to the supply of staple foods and the proletariat. This is threatened by a variety of factors, attributable to the operation of the capitalist system. Among them are the senseless waste of Third World resources caused by the foreign investors' insatiable thirst for the quick repatriation of super-profits and the increasing orientation of Third World agricultures toward high-value or export crops (which are usually the same), an orientation which is imposed upon them by the industrial countries' agricultural development strategies. Even self-sufficiency programs for more staple foods, such as the ill-reputed Green Revolution, predictably cannot be of long duration.

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