SPECULUM UNIVERSALIS « Dialogue with Reality : others. The poor getting poorer and the Nicaragua, Nigeria, Algeria, Afghanistan, a neo-classical observation on economic interdependence among third world nations » rich getting more powerful and influential. Trinidad and Tobago, et cetra. To support Violence, disease, Trans-national Terrorism this conceptualization, the First World and cultural conflict, economic recession, (developed market economies) and Second the failure of capital to accumulate, the cor- World ( developed centrally planned econo- ruption and despotic dramatization of de- mies) Nations are the wealthy industrial, mocracy has not allow a fateful contract to democracy and economically advanced na- hold and flourish between the people and tions. Par Saidu Ahmed Enagi Responsible for CNRJ-Nigeria their respective government. Natural and man-made disasters, Climate Change, food insecurity and poverty has become the problem of developing countries. Now, how can these issues be solved? is there a wayforeword? What is the global Future of the Third World Nations? The aim of this paper is to briefly take a look at the aforementioned problems and how can they be addressed from a neoclassical standpoint. let's now start the dialogue Mohammed Ali Pate, Adjunct Professor of Global Health at the Duke University Global Health Institute. USA. And Bill Gate, Board Member, Microsoft and Chairman Corbis. We have seen over the years how the Dialogue no.1: Think local wealthy nations group themselves into political and economic agendas, some of this Preamble groups include the G-8 Countries, OECD, European Union(EU). Thinking locally has The world of mankind has come to a deci- now allow the Third World nations to real- sion-point where economic development ize that there is a divide between the rich among nations provide a platform for the and the poor, thinking locally has allow emergence of private properties and socio- Third World nation to know that there is a economic classes dividing the humanity into need for them to re-write their history in spheres of influence: The Rich and The gold, to discard the idea that they can also Poor, The Powerful and The Weak, Political walk their paths to economic freedom. the Control and Political Dependency, Imperialism checkmating the dynamics of human development. An intellectual cartography that saw Aristotle, the philosophical emergence of Plato Academy, Marxism- Ricardianism, Han Dynasty, Bait-Alhikma, Newtonian Industrial Revolution and re- cently the rise of the Computer Age and the globalization of Nuclear Science and Petroleum Economy. Global inequality and distributive injustice has continue to threatened our path to development modernization, a united international community has been difficult to achieve despite classical-historical literary endeavor by Immanuel Kant Perpetual Peace (1795), Ibn Khaldun Muqqaddima (13th Century), Mohandas Gandhi Civil Disobedience and Non-violence among problem of a nation can only be solved by Charity begins at home, said a popular plati- that nation, no one else can, and a nation tude. if the world is facing critical challenges can only be acquitted this reality when to economic development the first hypothe- those in it are willing to think locally. sis to a sustainable resolution, i believe should begin from understanding the do- Dialogue no.2 : act global mestic foundation of what brings about the wealth of a nation. The Third World nations When the third world nations realizes the are the economically less-developed states implication of the economic power disparity that tended to share a colonial history. the existing between the developed and the third world is a home to more than 85 per- developing nation, they began to challenge cent of the world's people it commands less themselves to take-up the task of nation- than 20 percent of its wealth. these coun- building. In the 1960s, the third world na- tries are characterized by low productivity, tions formed a coalition of the world's high rate of population growth, and skewed poor, the Group of 77 (known in diplomatic patterns of income distribution, with large circles simply as (G-77) and used their vot- segments of their populations suffering from ing power to convene the UN Conference poverty, illiteracy, and ill health. these coun- on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). tries include Namibia, Madagascar, Bolivia, SPECULUM UNIVERSALIS|Article issu de la Revue internationale de ONG CNRJ|www.cnrj.org| N°18 Novembre 2014 Article issus du LSU n°18 de Novembre 2014 'interest-blocs' in order to advance their SPECULUM UNIVERSALIS UNCTAD later became a permanent UN begin to feel that they have brothers and organization Third sisters in Indonesia, Cote d'ivore, Peru and World express its interests concerning anywhere in the world were mankind exist. development issue. a decade later, the G-77 for us to actualize this, for the third world composing of about 120 Countries used its to achieve its lofty dream, then the idea, the numerical majority to push for a New Inter- struggle must begin with you and i. through which the national Economic Order (NIEO) to replace the international economic regime championed by the United State and other capitalist powers since the World War II. Dialogue no.3 : be part of global economic solution Today, despite the economic and sociopolitical challenges, the Third World Nations were still able to contribute to global economic solution. in 2006, net capital flows climbed to $647 billion, the highest level on record. the Asia/ Pacific region now accounts for two-fifths of the worldwide capital investments. In 2007 Global remittances have steadily climbed since the 1970s to Philippines lives abroad, sending home $15 billion a year, a seventh of the country's GDP. Argentina and Paraguay Members of the Mercosur free-trade Zone that expanded trade to $21.1 billion in South America. Dialogue no.4 : it begins with you and i. A conclusion Everything in life begins with an idea, science and chemistry allow us to understand that rain is as a result of Condensation taking place beyond the atmosphere, Literature became the powerful tool in history because it was an idea accepted by all. The idea of E-commerce was invented because of the increasing globalization of business transactions across continents. the idea that the world need to live in peace as against the cutthroat and desperate political power struggle by great economies, i believe in a world free from war, free of nuclear weapons, free from poverty and hunger, i want a world where cultural affinity of the man in India with the young man in South Africa is possible, where the man in Ethiopia and the man in Brazil believe in collective change, a world where the children in Nigeria should SPECULUM UNIVERSALIS|Article issu de la Revue internationale de ONG CNRJ|www.cnrj.org| N°18 Novembre 2014 Article issus du LSU n°18 de Novembre 2014 reach $318 billion, nearly ten percent of the
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