Slipping back to the third world

[Ratpack 0]

Here's an interesting topic

Over the past 100 years plenty of countries have obtained wealth and slipped back to the third world.Agentina is a prime example.

Of the countries that have recently jumped from the thrid world to the first.Which one's do you think are in danger of slipping back?

[Zuikakuyama 1]

Sillypore is on the top of my list.

It is run by Lee Kwan Yew (AKA Lee Con You) and his sons and daughter-in-law, and is the only modern functioning monarchy in the world.

In a few years, it wont exist as a country.

[Jakusotsu 4,993]

Ireland, huh? (Whistling...)

No vote for this silly poll from me....

[Shimpu 0]

Ireland, huh? (Whistling...)

No vote for this silly poll from me....

Yep, I'm a bit astonished too because Ireland for many of my compatriots is something similar to "American dream" (Eating...)

Edited August 1, 2006 by Shimpu

[Ratpack 0]

Ireland, huh? (Whistling...)

No vote for this silly poll from me....

Yep, I'm a bit astonished too because Ireland for many of my compatriots it is something similar to "American dream" (Eating...)

I think you guys are forgetting.Ireland was a very poor country in the 1980s.The country rapidly developed in the 90s due to EU subsidies and Amercian software investment.If these stop the country could slip back into poverty.

However this is unlikely.The EU is a stable organisation

I would go for Malaysia as a possible candidate due to a fragile extistance between its Malay muslims and Chinese uppper class.

That said I wouldn't wish any country to slip back into the third world.But It has happened in the case of some South American countries

Edited August 1, 2006 by Ratpack

[Sasanishiki 57]

Although many of these countries have been less prominent in the past compared to their position today, can we really consider any of them 3rd World? Poor does not equate to 3rd world as that to me conjures up so many other problems of infrastructure, war, diesase, famine, internal fighting, neglect, reliance on others for humanitarian aid etc. My thought is that Sth Korea was probably 3rd world after the Korean War but what about the others?

[Ratpack 0]

Although many of these countries have been less prominent in the past compared to their position today, can we really consider any of them 3rd World? Poor does not equate to 3rd world as that to me conjures up so many other problems of infrastructure, war, diesase, famine, internal fighting, neglect, reliance on others for humanitarian aid etc. My thought is that Sth Korea was probably 3rd world after the Korean War but what about the others?

Ireland lived in a pretty deprived state until the EU and American software companies came to their rescue.Infact I am worried about Ireland slipping back into the third world more than the other countries when I consider their rise to the first world in the 1990s.Malaysia which is my first choice due to potential ethnic tensions has built a high tech industrial base on its own.Ireland on the other hand has just taken handouts from Brussels and charmed the American software companies with an Irish folk song and a pint of Guniness.Not a strong base for a long term economy I think.

If the EU ran out of money and the Amercians stopped investing in the country,the Emerald Isle would be in real trouble.While Malaysia,Singapore and other Asian Tigers would have the infrastructure and real world economy to withstand any major shock.

Edited August 15, 2006 by Ratpack

[Fay 1,676]

I strongly believe that you don't know what you are talking about. I doubt if you ever visited a country of the so called Third World, not to mention worked there for a longer time like I did. Otherwise you wouldn't post such crap ... sorry. (Showing respect...)

[Randomitsuki 2,548]

Unfortunately I currently have no access to older resources, but an almanac from 1990 that I happen to own lists Ireland as 29th richest country in terms of GNP. I must assume that if Ireland ever was third world in the 1980s the countries ranging from 30th to about 180th place in this ranking represent the 4th to 19th world then?

[Kotoku 0]

Dumber than a bag a hammers, this one... -L-

Thomas Edward William O'Quinn direct from 1840s Strokestown famines to the shores of old Edo by way of the U-S-A...

[Takanobaka 0]

Not that it's an option, and it's questionable that it ever reached first (I would say that Sumatra did), but Indonesia seems to already be well on its way there. Remember 8 years ago when the next big corporate wave was coming out of Jakarta? Sadly, just about every American firm that had opened up there has since shut down...