Fundamental Problems of Developing Countries

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The monograph describes basic problems of third world countries. First, it characterizes the third world countries, their social-economic differentiation, their place in the world economy, including three developing world regions: Latin America, Asia and Africa. Following that, it investigates large problems plaguing the developing regions, which means the population problem and the related food problem. The industrial progress as a basic precondition of passive development of the third world countries closely relates to the availability of energy and raw natural resources. These and many other activities have not only a positive but also a negative influence, in the first place at the quality of the environment.