Global North — South divide (Rich vs. Poor, Stability vs. Progress)

Draw a rough line across a world map near the 30th parallel north, and you have drawn something close to the line a former West German Chancellor once used to explain why some countries stayed rich and stable while others remained poor and unsettled — not by geography, but by history.

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The Global North–South divide is a socio-economic and political split between wealthier, more industrialised States and poorer, still-developing States, rooted in a history of colonialism and still visible today in the gap in income, technology and political stability.

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