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I appreciate your response. Could you elaborate? You are living in Ireland and claim the countries of Spain, Portugal, Latvia and Greece are not first world. I am assuming you have extensive travel through them because you live in Europe. Have you visited them?
Good post. I believe both we both have high standards for the term first world.
Could you elaborate as to why these countries are not first world?
A combination of GDP per capita, comparatively lower average income/high rates of poverty (for the developed world), poor bureaucratic systems/economic safety nets, economies not doing well, aging infrastructure/infrastructure not well run.
Is there a reason why the most developed of the Baltic states, Estonia, is the only clear "no" amongst them?
Anyway, I think all of them are fairly developed.
My reasoning for listing these countries is that these are all countries I have visited or are researching with the possibility of visiting. I do not want to visit countries that are not fully developed or come across as "poor". No offense to anyone, any country or their traveling opinions. However, those are mine and I feel strongly about them. Therefore, I would like some feedback into them. I loved Vienna by the way and plan to see more of Austria.
If the previous thread on this topic was any indication, people's definitions of "developed" and "undeveloped" seem to vary significantly according to whether one is appealing to the authority of think tanks such as the OECD (which places emphasis on Human Development indices [1] on a simple a priori basis) or comparative historical studies (which place less emphasis on HDI and more upon foundational values [1][2][3] on the basis of meta-criterion analysis).
I assume you're referring to the former, or systems similar to the former, in which case you can make informed conclusions after studying their inclusion criteria. The up-to-date OECD membership as of 2012:
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