Re: Human Development Index 2004

[Chris Doss <lookoverhere1@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Third World" is not a useful category.

Ulhas
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Thank you! That is so true. It seems to be a synonym
for "poorer than the West." (Except that Saudi Arabia
is usually called a third-world country, even though
the average Saudi private residence is five times the
size of one in Western Europe).

If Russia is a "third-world" country, then it is one
that exports high-tech weapons, has builds cruise
missiles, sends people regularly into space (the only
country to be doing so at present), and in which half
of the population owns a mobile telephone. And about
half own their own apartments.



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