Less Developed Countries
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Less Developed Countries or "LDC"s are those countries that are not as rich as the industrialised countries of western Europe and North America.
These are often countries which have a lot of natural resources but not the industry to use them so the resources are sold to the countries which can use them.
There have been many other names used to describe these countries, including:
- Third World Countries: this name is because democracy ( the United States) was considered the first world, communism (USSR) was considered the 2nd world, and everything else was thrown into this "third world" category
- The Developing World
They are not used now because Less Developed Country seems less insulting.
