Abstract
In 1952 when the demographer Alfred Sauvy first used the expression "Third World" in an article titled "Three worlds, one planet" to designate the poor, recently decolonized countries or those due to soon break free of their colonized past, this new world struggled to define its own identity in a rigorous bipolar globe where both capitalist and communist camps endeavored to deeply organize the entire planet following their specific models of development. Yet in the fifties these developing countries presented a real unity. Stricken with an ever booming population explosion, they remained in majority rural countries, too often failing to nourish their starving populations and presented serious setbacks in infrastructure, health care and education, as well as withholding weak economies based chiefly on the export of primary or basically transformed primary goods and were very dependent on aid from the developed world, sharing the difficulties of massive debt. Plagued with political instability with numerous dictatorial regime attempts, beginning the country's road to development was often a rocky route full of setbacks and difficulties, and a sense of unity was established in the common experience of all these hardships.
