If Argentina were a first-world country, its debt wouldn't be a problem.

In Argentina, once a first-world country, I visited a slum where doctors told me that 90 percent of the children had worms.

It's also aspiring to have the creative freedom that comes with being a first-world country.

Also, in first-world countries, regulations on domestic cattle prevent infected meat from reaching the human hosts.

But first-world countries like Australia and Canada have picked up some cheap castoffs, as well.

The Western Cape has an excellent network of highways comparable with any first-world country.

It has also had the effect of making a tourist's paradise out of what had nearly been a first-world country.

It's not your fault you live in an upper-middle-class family in a first-world country.

This obviously is resulting in a huge immigration of skilled professionals from first-world countries to the third world, seeking a better quality of life.

Analysts even suggested that the country was in the verge of becoming a first-world country.