. ..... 34 SEcoND ouGHTS ABOUT THE IRD WoRLD Poverty isn't the problem. Creating wealth is. W HAT IS popularly called the Third World is larger than the first world of affluent nations ( western Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan) and the second world of communist-bloc countries combined. Most of the human race lives in the Third World. In that sense, it is an immense ly important reality. In another sense, however, the Third World as a concep...
