ANNEXES
Abbreviations
Acronyms and abbreviations
- ADB
- Asian Development Bank
- ADBG
- African Development Bank Group
- AOI
- Agriculture Orientation Index
- APEC
- Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation
- BBC
- British Broadcasting Corporation
- BP
- British Petroleum
- BRICS
- Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa
- CBD
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- CDI
- Commitment to Development Index
- CITES
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
- CMS
- Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
- CO2
- carbon dioxide
- COP 21
- Twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (UNFCCC)
- CSIS
- Center for Strategic and International Studies
- DAA
- direct-acting antiviral drug
- DAC
- Development Assistance Committee (OECD)
- DESA
- United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- ECA
- United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
- ECOSOC
- United Nations Economic and Social Council
- EDI
- Education for All Development Index
- EFA
- education for all
- EIA
- United States Energy Information Administration
- EIU
- Economist Intelligence Unit
- ESG
- environmental, social and governance
- FAO
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- FDI
- foreign direct investment
- FiBL
- Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau (Research Institute of Organic Agriculture)
- FTT
- Financial Transaction Taxation
- GATT
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- GDP
- gross domestic product
- GERD
- gross domestic expenditure on research and development
- GGI
- Gender Gap Index
- GHG
- greenhouse gas
- GII
- Gender Inequality Index
- GNI
- gross national income
- GNP
- gross national product
- GPEDC
- Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation
- GPI
- Genuine Progress Indicator
- GSMA
- Groupe Speciale Mobile Association
- HCV
- hepatitis C virus
- HS
- Harmonized System
- IAEG-SDG
- Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators
- IBRD
- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- ICT
- information and communications technology
- IEA
- International Energy Agency
- IFOAM
- International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements
- IGME
- United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation
- ILO
- International Labour Organization
- IMF
- International Monetary Fund
- IPCC
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- IPPC
- International Plant Protection Convention
- ISAR
- Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting
- ITF
- International Transport Forum
- ITU
- International Telecommunication Union
- IUU
- illegal, unreported and unregulated
- IWI
- Inclusive Wealth Index
- LDC
- least developed country
- LLDC
- landlocked developing country
- MFN
- most favoured nation
- MHT
- medium- and high-technology
- MVA
- manufacturing value added
- NASA
- United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NDI
- national data infrastructure
- n.e.c
- not elsewhere classified
- ODA
- official development assistance
- ODCs
- other developing countries
- OECD
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- PCD
- policy coherence for development
- PPP
- purchasing-power-parity (Goal 8); public–private partnership (Goal 17)
- PTR
- pupil–teacher ratio
- RCA
- revealed comparative advantage
- RFMA
- regional fisheries management arrangement
- RFMO
- regional fisheries management organization
- RPM
- relative preferential margin
- SEEA
- System of Environmental–Economic Accounting
- SIDS
- small island developing States
- SIGI
- Social Institutions and Gender Index
- SME
- small and medium-sized enterprise
- SPS
- sanitary and phytosanitary
- TBT
- technical barriers to trade
- TRAINS
- Trade Analysis and Information System
- TSA
- Tourism Satellite Account
- UNCCD
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
- UNCLOS
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
- UNCTAD
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
- UNDP
- United Nations Development Programme
- UNEP
- United Nations Environment Programme
- UNESCO
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- UNFCCC
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- UNHCR
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- UNICEF
- United Nations Children’s Fund
- UNIDO
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization
- UNSD
- United Nations Statistics Division
- UNWTO
- World Tourism Organization
- WEF
- World Economic Forum
- WEOI
- Women’s Economic Opportunity Index
- WFP
- World Food Programme
- WHO
- World Health Organization
- WITS
- World Integrated Trade Solution
- WSIS
- World Summit on the Information Society
- WTO
- World Trade Organization
