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...have-nots are often described as the South (in contrast to the industrialized North), the LDCs (less developed countries) or the Third World (in comparison with the First World of the industrialized West and the Second World of Communism). The diplomatic vehicle often used by the poor nations is the so-called Group of 77, a consortium of developing countries (actually, there are now 103) within the United Nations...
...themselves, some obstacles are not easily overcome. Most of the poor nations, for example, are burdened with a tropical climate, which lowers both soil fertility and levels of human exertion. Many also lack the cultural milieu to reinforce individual initiative and social concern for progress. "What holds back many LDCs is the people who live there," says P.T. Bauer. "Material achievement depends primarily on people's attitudes, motivation and mores. In many LDCs, popular mores are often uncongenial to economic development; there is widespread fatalism and torpor and preference for a contemplative life." For many traditional African societies, work...
...early 1960s, the U.N. launched its much vaunted Development Decade, setting a minimum target of 5% annual growth for what was then called the "lesser-developed countries" or LDCs. In 1970, with many of the first decade's plans still unfulfilled, a Second Development Decade was decreed, and the growth target upped to 6%. As of 1973, however, only a few of the LDCs, most of them oil exporters, had achieved a 6% growth rate. The rest, with a total population of 1.5 billion, kept a meager 2.8% ahead of the population increase...
...called less-developed countries will have to resist the temptation to blame the world's ills on the former colonial powers and the U.S." It is equally true that the U.S. and the former colonial powers will have to take much more seriously what the LDCs are saying...
Your article further seems to assume that if the LDCs would learn to farm the way we do, the hunger problem would be solved. In fact, we are so profligate in our use of energy that we consume more calories of energy in input in our farming than the crops produce to be eaten...