At 22:32 25-01-01 -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote:
>At 05:33 PM 1/25/01 -0600, Julia wrote:
> >It depends. Is Sri Lanka part of the Third World? I know of at least one
> >clothing company that set up a shop there, put in nice, new machines,
> >better work environment than any of the other companies doing comparable
> >manufacturing there, and paid a better wage -- maybe not twice as nice,
> >but on the order of $8 per whatever-amount-of-time rather than the local
> >going rate of $6 for the same amount of time; and they caught a lot of
> >flack from the other companies doing clothing manufacturing there.
>
>I should point out that term "Third World" is very politically incorrect.
>The distinctions are developed world, nations in transition, and developing
>world.
>But anyways, yes - Sri Lanka is a very poor country (and is currently being
>brutalized by a vicious civil war that almost nobody seems to know about).
Whatever the proper term is, though, is there anywhere a list of which
countries fall into each category? I don't think I've ever heard of any
specific nation being listed in the middle category ("second world" or
"nations in transition" or whatever).
Of course, you have a point about the lack of news coverage of any trouble
in Sri Lanka.
-- Ronn! :)
