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How would you describe the contemporary worlds beyond the languages of ‘ North/ South’ and ‘Developed/ Developing’? Is the present transformation driven by domestic compulsions, or external overall crisis of the global economy? (250 words)

  • UPSC 2012
  • 20 marks
  • Globalisation

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Each binary belongs to an earlier moment. "Third World" (Alfred Sauvy, 1952) was a Cold War term. "North/South" came from the Brandt Report (1980), whose line was always geographically rough. "Developed/Developing" assumes a single road on which every country stands at a different milestone. None captures a world in which differences within the South now…

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