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The Third World has reached the end of its age of optimism. In the twenty years after the Second World War, as the countries of Africa and Asia moved, one by one, bloodily or peacefully, to independence, men hoped that with self-government would come prosperity, that development would gradually abolish poverty and malnutrition, and that the new countries would join the old ones, 100 or 150 years later, in progress towards decent living standards for the mass of their people.
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© 1976 John Cole
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Cole, J. (1976). The Scale of World Poverty. In: The Poor of the Earth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15719-8_1
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