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"Discuss Whether The Concept Of The 'Third World' Still Has Any Validity". Firstly, in order to address this title, the term 'Third World' must first be defined in terms of it's origin and meaning. The industrial revolution in the nineteenth century led to Wester ....

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.... (1980), or the Report of the Independent Commission on International Development Issues. This report stated that the 'rich developed' countries were located in the 'north', and that the 'poor undeveloped' or 'developing' countries were located in the 'south'. However, in this report the 'North/South' divide used in the Brandt Report will not be used, instead the use of the phrase 'Third World' will be used in its place. The phrase originally derives from France ('Tiers Monde') in the 1950's to describe the peasantry (the 'Third Estate') in pre-Revolutionary 1789 France. By the end of the 1960's however this concept was used to help describe t ....