This reminds me of an observation made by Warren Buffet on a trip to a third-world country.
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They treat us really as a third-world country, because we're cheap, but we also have the technical skills.
So for our people - and we are a Third-World country so we actually go through poverty every day.
His achievements over the past 12 months include a 10, 000 world title, world records at both 5, 000 and 10, 000, a third successive double at the cross-country world championships and the Olympic 10, 000 title.
"The Iron Market is a first-class building for a third world country, " says Baucher.
Fears that the third world will steal rich-world output and jobs are based on the old fallacy that an increase in one country's output must be at the expense of another's.
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Caras reflects the division that exists within Brazil - a country that is both First World and Third World.
With independence in 1962, the adoption of Arabic as the national language was a natural choice to mark the break with France and forge an identity suited to the country's new status as a third-world leader.
The mix of economic rigour and reformist politics seemed a promising one for Brazil, the world's fourth-largest democracy but its third most unequal country and one with an unhappy tradition of political corruption (see article).
Representatives seemed to coo as the world's third-richest man opined about the fate of the country.
Although the country is still host to about one-third of the world's offshore assets, its attraction as a private-banking centre has dwindled.
The Asian campaign sees the top two teams from each of the two five-country groups advance to the World Cup, with both third-placed teams entering a playoff.
I've been tested in a way in which I ran the third-largest government in this country, the 17th-largest economy in the world, and I got very, very remarkable results.
In military parlance, they're known as "TCNs" or "third country nationals, " but they might as well be called third-world nationals.
In 2008 the World Bank rated it the third richest country in the world, in terms of GDP per head at purchasing-power parity.
Japanese stocks jumped and the yen sank after the country's central bank announced aggressive measures for getting the world's third-largest economy out of a two-decade slump.
And a stirring second-half display at a rain-lashed national stadium will ensure that the Scots go up against the country ranked third in the world in a positive mood.
The Film Distributors Association said that the UK remains the world's third largest cinema-going market, with 40 million admissions to screens around the country so far this year.
For all the flaws in India's democratic system, however, most middle-class Indians remain proud that their country can claim to be a rare democracy in the third world.
America is already the third most populous country in the world and its population is projected to grow to over 400m by mid-century, virtually all the growth coming from immigration.
While the other seven leaders from North America, Europe and Japan fret about the digital divide, and the poor health and bad debts of the world's hard-up nations (see article), Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, by his own admission, knows he is struggling to avoid his country's relegation from the big-power table to the ranks of the third world.
Some people call this country third world but when it comes to cricket, I feel it is most definitely first-class.
Even though many analysts agree that the dollar won't be replaced in the short run, it is a notion that has been raised by other nations such as Russia and more recently Brazil, the fifth largest country in the world-after Russia, Canada, China and the United States and the third largest in the Americas.
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