Rethinking the Third World
November 1999
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Title: Is There a Third World?
Author: Martin W. Lewis
"While it is relatively easy to dismantle an intellectual construct like the third world, it is much more difficult to devise suitable alternatives. And alternative designations are sorely needed if we are to grasp a global geography where divisions are continually being produced and reproduced between wealthy people and places, and between poor people and places."
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Title: The Third Worldist Moment
Author: Robert Malley
"Third Worldism. . .was a political, intellectual, even artistic effort that took as its raw material an assortment of revolutionary movements and moments, weaved them together into a more or less intelligible whole, and gave us the tools to interpret not them alone, but also others yet to come."
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Title: The New Interventionism and the Third World
Author: Richard Falk
"The legal framework defining the right of self-determination and respect for territorial sovereignty is in disarray. Deference to the state has weakened in recent years by changes in geopolitics, greater support for human rights, the impact of globalization, and the countervailing emergence of a variety of micro-nationalisms and ethnic causes."
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Title: Managing Inequality in the Developing World
Author: Nancy Birdsall
"Globalization's risks of inequality are likely to be greatest in the next decade, as developing countries undergo the difficult transition to more competitive, transparent, and rule-based market systems. . . . During the transition, a focus on minimizing and managing inequality, and on making the market game as nearly as possible fair, should be highlighted."
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Title: The Invention of Development
Author: Arturo Escobar
"Development was--and continues to be for the most part--a top-down, ethnocentric, and technocratic approach that treats people and cultures as abstract concepts, statistical figures to be moved up and down in the charts of 'progress.' . . . It comes as no surprise that development became a force so destructive to third world cultures, ironically in the name of people's interests."
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Title: Trade and the Developing World: A New Agenda
Author: Joseph F. Stiglitz
"If the new round of trade talks is seen as unbalanced and support for liberalization in the developing world falters, then we are likely to see the emergence of even greater inequalities between rich and poor countries, and even more people in poverty. . . . The implications for global economic and political security of an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots should be obvious."
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Title: Book Reviews: Development as Freedom. By Amartya Sen
Reviewer: Susan I. Finkelstein
On Rethinking the Third World
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Title: Book Reviews: Lost on Earth: Nomads of the New World. By Mark Fritz
Reviewer: Amy L. Dalton
On Rethinking the Third World
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Title: The Month in Review: September 1999
An international chronology of events in September, country by country, day by day.
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Title: Human Development
A map of Human Development.
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