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Global South

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Etymology

First used in a political sense in 1969.

Definitions

  1. A region predominantly composed of the developing countries of Africa, Latin America, and…

    A region predominantly composed of the developing countries of Africa, Latin America, and Asia excluding Japan and South Korea, regarded as half of a socioeconomic and political divide opposite to the Global North.

    • A paragon from the Global South, as no one I know who lives there calls it, would be very 21st century, very au courant.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of Global South.

    • But the summit will also show the limits of what a heterogeneous “global south” can achieve.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA