Jakarta, Indonesia—The central business district of Indonesia's 11 million-person capital has the social contrast found in many other developing world megacities. Modern skyscrapers accommodate ...

US President Donald Trump escalated his hardline immigration rhetoric by announcing a sweeping suspension on migration from "Third World countries" following the fatal shooting of two National Guard ...

The term "Third World" is making headlines. Last week, President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that immigrants from poor nations are a burden on the United States. "I will permanently pause ...

Whether you use “Third World” or “Developing” to describe a certain country, both terms mean the same thing: poor. But it didn’t always mean that. During World War I, First World was used to refer to ...

In a Thanksgiving Day social media post, President Donald Trump said he plans to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries,” tying the pledge to his broader push to remake U.S.

GUESTS: JOHN BIEWEN *Correspondent and Producer, American RadioWorks CHANNAPATNA (C.S.) PRAKASH *Professor, Plant Molecular Genetics, Tuskegee University ANURADHA MITTAL *Co-Director, FOOD FIRST ...

Journal of Global Faultlines, Vol. 10, No. 1 (January-February 2023), pp. 71-87 (17 pages) One common economic phenomenon of third-world countries is the high tendency not to be able to financially ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Quote card by Opinion. There is no definitive way to trace the origins of how long the United ...

America prides itself on supposedly being the wealthiest, most advanced country with the highest standard of living in the world — the top example of a so-called "first-world country." But it's ...

Despite decades of promises about development and global equality, the deep divide between the Global North and South remains rooted in centuries of exploitation. Far from ending with colonialism, ...