global south

Proper noun capitalized: Global South

the Global South

1. A region predominantly composed of developing countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, regarded as half of a socioeconomic and political divide opposite to the Global North.
   • Where and what is the Global South? If you ask people on the street, many would probably not have the faintest idea. In everyday parlance and mass media, Global South has hardly become a household term. In academic and (global) policy circles, though, the term is used with much more gusto.2015, Andrea Hollington, Oliver Tappe, Tijo Salverda, Tobias Schwarz, Concepts of the Global South. Voices from around the world., Global South Studies Center Cologne, archived from the original on...
   • Malagasy, like many indigenous languages in the Global South, has few formal language resources. When Jagwar – born in Madagascar — discovered Wiktionary as a teenager, he saw an opportunity to correct this.2020 August 4, Cyrus Multhauf, “How a Malagasy Teenager Created the World’s Second-Largest Dictionary”, in NEEM Blog, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021

   Antonyms:

   Global North