POLI 227 Study Guide - Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Democratic Consolidation, Fernando Henrique Cardoso
13 Apr 2013
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Hdi: human development index (best single measure of a nation"s quality of life) Many of the issues concerning countries such as afghanistan [religious intolerance], Colombia [poverty and revolutionary conflict], iraq/nigeria [ethnically based massacres], and zimbabwe/burma [political repression] are present in industrialized democracies but in a milder form. Developing nations (areas) is the term used by political scientists. Vietnam, which resemble other developing nations on many dimensions. Countries fall under its banner not because of any specific quality, but simply because they are not members of either the first world or second world. Despite their differences, 3rd world countries share a number of common characteristics: south korea/singapore/taiwan are no longer economically underdeveloped, they. They all suffer from some aspects of political, economic or social underdevelopment still share a high vulnerability to global economic forces and continue to suffer from political underdevelopment. Poverty is the biggest characteristic for some countries.
