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"Third world" Quotes from Famous Books

... tradition. It is almost totally supported by exports of crude oil and natural gas, with revenues from the petroleum sector accounting for perhaps half of GDP. Per capita GDP is far above most other Third World countries, and substantial income from overseas investment supplements income from domestic production. The government provides for all medical services and subsidizes food and housing. The government is beginning ...

— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... intimacy with Thire. This feeling is not to be found in either the first or second world, therefore it is a third world. Just as depth is the line between object and subject, feeling is the ...

— A Voyage to Arcturus • David Lindsay

... "Then in the third world, what greater rewards are there than the pleasures of paradise? Surely that ...

— There was a King in Egypt • Norma Lorimer

... domestic entrepreneurship, government regulation and welfare measures, and village tradition. It is almost totally supported by exports of crude oil and natural gas, with revenues from the petroleum sector accounting for perhaps half of GDP. Per capita GDP is among the highest in the Third World, and substantial income from overseas investment supplements income from domestic production. The government provides for all medical services and subsidizes food and housing. The government is beginning to show progress on its basic policy of diversifying the ...

— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.