He has advocated millennium forgiveness of third-world debts, a non-starter in Washington and on Wall Street.
This reminds me of an observation made by Warren Buffet on a trip to a third-world country.
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Her last painting was of you, slouching against the front door: only your frowning I-had-a-lousy-Third-World-childhood-and-all-I-got-was-this-attitude eyes recognizable.
It will be hard to persuade farm- or textile-trade negotiators, for example, to care about third-world producers.
So for our people - and we are a Third-World country so we actually go through poverty every day.
The soap is cleaned and reformed into new blocks, then sent to people in Haiti and other third-world countries.
Brazil famously has a first-world rate of government spending but third-world public services.
In that role, she has continually offered her time, money and clout to causes ranging from global poverty to Third-World adoption.
The Fund helped to contain the third-world debt crisis of the 1980s and to restore confidence in Mexico three years ago.
The very place names in Gothenburg breathe well-intentioned internationalism: Esperanto Square, Olof Palme Place, after its third-world-minded prime minister assassinated in 1986.
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Yet, at another level, South Africa does not follow a third-world agenda.
Plus, in high school he received the Meritorious Distinction for Senior Thesis: Female Empowerment as a result of Microfinance Institutions in Third-World Nations.
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Their views are often well to the right of an older group of churchgoers, who sign up readily to green and third-world causes.
Many funds already keep a close watch on how firms deal with a variety of controversies, from genetically modified foods to third-world labour standards.
From engine overhauls, to drilling out rivets to fixing faulty flaps, Boeing and Airbus-made passenger jet repairs are increasingly being done in third-world countries.
Notre Dame showed it can tackle third-world problems and quarterbacks, ranking No. 18 on the Peace Corps list of medium-sized schools and No. 5 on Scout.
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With small domestic markets, backward technology and inadequate capital, third-world countries have everything to gain from ending their relative isolation and developing close economic ties with the rest of the world.
The company that kept its workers on during the Depression of the 1930s still goes into paroxysms of anguish over issues, such as how to deal with third-world workers, that other firms barely think about.
"Somewhere, years down the road, I definitely want to make an impact within third-world countries and for our foundation to be able to do work in a lot of different areas across the world, " he said.
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.
About the dependence or independence of third-world countries on the few big, extremely powerful GM suppliers and their annual package of GM seeds and GM seed-specific pesticides (let's not forget about them) - not a single word.
Interest rates hit 21.5%, a deep recession ensued with unemployment reaching 11%, the agricultural sector slid into depression, a bubble burst in the energy sector, the real estate industry collapsed, and third-world debt burdens nearly brought down the mega banks.
An archaeologist who neglects to publish a final report on a dig in a reasonable time is no more ethical (perhaps far less so) than an impoverished, third-world peasant looting the artefacts of his ancestors to support his family.
This is a critical success factor when managing and leading major transformational changes that include rapid growth in third-world countries, and in the global population, as well as a huge increase in the number of people connecting online around the world.
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The former skipper dropped anchor in a 100-run stand for the first wicket with Devon Smith (53), while Pollard provided the theatrics late on, hammering five fours and four sixes in the third-fastest World Cup half-century.
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Foreign affiliates now account for one-tenth of world GDP and one-third of world exports, the agency's World Investment Report said.
The gulf in class in 50-over cricket between New Zealand - rated third in the world - and England (seventh) had been cruelly exposed.
China - home to one-third of the world's smokers - outlawed smoking in bars, restaurants and buses from 1 May 2011 and Russia plans to implement similar legislation from 2015.
When Morgan Stanley recalculates the company's rankings in its MSCI Emerging Markets Index, the consensus is that Gazprom, which holds nearly one-third of the world's natural-gas reserves and contributes 25% of Russia's tax receipts, will come out on top of the list, ahead of behemoths like Samsung Electronics .
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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