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the world's most poverty-stricken nations, esp. in Africa and Asia, marked by very low GNP per capita and great dependence upon foreign economic aid. Cf. First World, Second World, Third World.[1970-75]
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fourth world — {n.}, {informal} The poor nations of the world, as distinguished from the oil rich nations of the third world. * /Sri Lanka will never join OPEC, since it is a fourth world nation./ … Dictionary of American idioms
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Fourth-World — See Fourth World. * * * … Universalium
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