PHILIPPINES no longer a THIRD World Country

[Early_Bird]

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The term "Second World" refers to the former communist-socialist, industrial states, the territory and sphere of influence of the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic.


Okay, kanusa man naunder ta sa USSR?

Second World Country List

Country formerly part of: Region
Albania * Southern Europe
Armenia Soviet Union Western Asia
Azerbaijan Soviet Union Western Asia
Belarus Soviet Union Eastern Europe
Bosnia and Herzegovina Yugoslavia Southern Europe
Bulgaria Eastern Europe
Croatia Yugoslavia Southern Europe
Czech Republic Czechoslovakia Eastern Europe
Estonia annexed by Soviet Union** Northern Europe
Georgia Soviet Union Western Asia
East Germany Western Europe
Hungary Eastern Europe
Kazakhstan Soviet Union South-Central Asia
Kyrgyzstan Soviet Union South-Central Asia
Latvia annexed by Soviet Union** Northern Europe
Lithuania annexed by Soviet Union** Northern Europe
Macedonia Yugoslavia Southern Europe
Moldova Soviet Union Eastern Europe
Montenegro Yugoslavia
Poland Eastern Europe
Romania Eastern Europe
Russia Soviet Union Northern Europe/Asia
Serbia Yugoslavia Southern Europe
Slovakia Czechoslovakia Eastern Europe
Slovenia Yugoslavia Southern Europe
Tajikistan Soviet Union South-Central Asia
Turkmenistan Soviet Union South-Central Asia
Ukraine Soviet Union Eastern Europe
Uzbekistan Soviet Union South-Central Asia

(Formerly) Communist States in Asia ***
China Eastern Asia
Korea (North) Korea Eastern Asia
Lao PDR South East Asia
Mongolia**** China, until 1921 Eastern Asia
Viet Nam (North) South East Asia

[crimzonsoul]

dili evenly distributed and income..even if it might be true na dako dako na ta ug per capta income, naa ra sa few ang money.

I really hope that it is true...

[fingolfin]

Resorting to name calling only exposes your lack of understanding of the issue. An indepth study of the topic & a little finesse in your delivery is in order & a step in the right direction. As for stating that RP is now an NIC, I can only say..."What have you been smoking, dude?"

.. you can answer WindShear but you can't answer my request here CLICK THIS . You keep on saying stuff like The thread starter based his post on GMA's doctored figures & misleading PR's. The formulation is flawed An indepth study of the topic & a little finesse in your delivery is in order & a step in the right direction". But you can't even give us facts and figures. All the while all you do is beating round the bush, to make it short, your words are empty.

[jugs_06]

wow.. good news for our country.. :mrgreen:

congratulations to PGMA for a job well done.. :mrgreen:

[Sanosuke]

Kadugayan mahimo na ug Fourth World country! Ehehehehe

Bitaw, honestly to say, sometimes our leaders, especially our President, "sugar coat" news, turning bad news into good news. I call it propaganda tactics.

But I see it as looking a half empty glass of water into half full. Sometimes, giving the good news gives encouragement to the countrymen to work better, and the good news gives correction and informs us of our weak spots to further improve our standing.

[fingolfin]

Ambot lang, I think it's only the rich that's getting richer and the poor are still getting poorer every second. Lisod man gihapon amo life miski gi unsa na ug kayod lisod gihapon making ends meet.

.. the rich is getting richer because they are striving and working for it. The poor is getting poorer cause all they do is complain. On a positive note, I've seen a lot of "poor" people getting rich coz they worked their hearts out to get out of the slump. Bottom line, if people could just shut their mouths in the complaint area and think and act on solutions to solving their own problems then everything will slowly evolve.

[Early_Bird]

.. the rich is getting richer because they are striving and working for it. The poor is getting poorer cause all they do is complain. On a positive note, I've seen a lot of "poor" people getting rich coz they worked their hearts out to get out of the slump. Bottom line, if people could just shut their mouths in the complaint area and think and act on solutions to solving their own problems then everything will slowly evolve.

:mrgreen:

Yeah good news ni. Pero dili pa gyud ko malipay kaayo and dili pa pud ta angay ma proud. As long as we are still in league with basically unknown, "alien sounding" countries like SWAZILAND and Nauru. As long as countries like Sri Lanka has better standing in their economy than ours. Even Vietnam is beating us in terms of progress and that is nothing to be proud of.

Pero anyway... Baby steps lang. Hinay hinay.

[omad]

As long as countries like Sri Lanka has better standing in their economy than ours. Even Vietnam is beating us in terms of progress and that is nothing to be proud of.Early_Bird, FYI maybe you didn't understand the data you were reading. the smaller the ranking, the lesser the GNI per capita meaning Vietnam (62) and Sri Lanka (77) has slightly lower GNI averages than the Philippines (86). and on the same note, making the US (190), Norway (191) and Luxembourg (192) the top countries if we talk specifically about GNI per capita.

[baron]

We're starting to move towards progress. Whether we want it or not, we have been a member of the third world countries ever since. It is only now that we can claim that we are no longer a third world country because of the economic gains we have as of the moment. If we can sustain this, we might be able to attain more.

By the way, US based investment Merril Lynch recently recognized the country's fiscal and economic progress as a "success story" for this year, showing our efforts with regard to economic reforms.

[kolz]

We should be VERY PROUD by being in league with Nauru, Swaziland, Guyana and other countries most of us have never heard of.. Look... Even Sri Lanka is doing better than us. hehehehe

I think you've read the charts wrong ... the more you go further in the bigger the PPP (Purchasing Power Parity), so the more you are at the bottom, the richer the country gets... Sri Lanka are further on top of the list having a PPP rating of 4100 .. than the 4770 for us. The goal for us now is to get to the green section > 6,000 PPP.