Third World Network

Third World Network

Subject – IR

Context – India appreciated the efforts of the Third World Network (TWN) for its support to Like Minded Developing Countries (LMDC), and expressed the need to ensure resources to TWN.

Concept –

• Third World Network (TWN) is an independent non-profit international research and advocacy organisation involved in issues relating to development, developing countries and North-South affairs.
• TWN was formed in November 1984 in Penang, Malaysia at the concluding session of an International Conference on “The Third World: Development or Crisis?”.
• Its mission is to bring about a greater articulation of the needs and rights of peoples in the South, a fair distribution of world resources, and forms of development which are ecologically sustainable and fulfill human needs.
• It provides a platform representing broadly Third World interests and perspectives at international fora such as United Nations agencies, conferences and processes, WTO, the World Bank and IMF.

TWN Publications –

• Third World Resurgence – a monthly magazine on development, ecology, economics, health, alternatives and South-North relations.
• Third World Economics – a bi-monthly economics magazine focussing on the GATT/WTO, the World Bank/IMF, etc.
• SUNS bulletin – the daily South-North Development bulletin published from Geneva, Switzerland.