DUBAI said:
No No NOoooooooooo :bash:
people pay attention to my wisdom!
Meanings for words and terms can change as situations change you know. I was really surprised and intrigued about where these terms come from. But they are now generally used to refer to developed, developing or underdeveloped countries.
However, to makes things easier shall we use geographical terms.
More economically developed countries (MEDCs)
Less economically developed countries (LEDSs)
I would say the U.A.E is certainly an MEDC. It may still be developing, but it has a very strong economy and alot of stability for future growth.
Human rights the U.A.E does fall back a little on. I think this could be attributed to how recently it was a LEDC. LEDCs generally have poorer human rights and other social problems. Generally these things take much longer to change than an economy does as it requires people attitudes to change. The U.A.E is actually seeing an abnormally accelerated development in these areas as well (although not as dramatic as the economic development) mainly due to a huge influx of people from existing and long standing MEDCs.