Taking concrete actions to help the third world 10 Articles

by W D Adkins

Few people are unaware that much of the Third World remains mired in poverty and misery. Zimbabwe, once considered to be at the forefront of economic growth in Africa, is struggling with an economic collapse and escalatin...read more

by V. Kumar

Third world is not a different world. The actions required to help it also need not be necessarily different from those that will people elsewhere. The so called 'third world' is far from being a homogeneous mass of peo...read more

by Calista Stevens

Nearly 50 percent of the world's wealth is owned by 1 percent of the population. For every dollar earned by a person in the poorest 20%, his or her counterpart in the richest 20% makes almost $80-and the gap is growing. ...read more

by Marcus Brooks

European colonialism has damaged the progress of Third World nations. For centuries, England, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Portugal and Belguim governed their specific colonies. After World War II, these colonies dema...read more

by Lokemun Magar - Food

The Bible tells us that a house built on shifting sand will not last. To build a house on shifting sand seems madness. Consider what has been done across continents to help the third world. Reflect on the actions taken to ...read more

by Lindy Abrahams

When it comes to poverty in the third world, everyone can agree that people have been giving from the beginning of time. It's fair to say that people with generous hearts have poured money into food Aids and programs that ...read more

by Shantanu Dutta

Ever since Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for his initiatives in micro finance, the sector has been attention that had hitherto been denied it. The Professor himself has been toasted around quite a bit and the Gr...read more

by Marie Devine

The fastest and most effective action to help the third world would be to recognize that the model for prosperity in industrialized nations is flawed; we are going the wrong way. We now know it is destroying us. For th...read more

by William Prest

World Poverty and How to Deal With IT There is little question about the existence of poverty in the world, especially in the developing nations also known as the third world. There is debate even though there seems to ...read more

by Nicolas Verhoeven

Should we help others? Yes. However, should we help a country that is in need and does not have any way of payment? No. The answer should remain no, though it often doesn't, because we are human. There is nothing wrong wit...read more